Department of Justice attorney Jason Manion argued to an appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that President Donald Trump has the authority to ban people with gender dysphoria from the military and that doing so would improve military preparedness.
Manion made his case to a three-judge panel that the policy, outlined this year in an executive order and subsequent policy issued by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, still allowed transgender people to serve in the military so long as they identified as their biological sex and did not seek medical treatments for their condition.
The three judges, comprising two Trump appointees and one former President Barack Obama appointee, are considering whether to pause a lower court’s decision to block the administration from implementing the ban.
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