The order reverses an Obama policy of letting these men and women serve openly.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday once again asked the Supreme Court to bypass the usual legal process to take on another controversial issue: President Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from military service.
Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the justices to consolidate the challenges to the ban – which so far have been successful in lower courts – and rule on the issue in its current term.
The challenges are to the administration’s order that would prohibit transgender men and women from enlisting, possibly subject current service members to discharge and deny certain medical care.
The order reverses an Obama administration policy allowing transgender men and women to serve openly and to receive funding for sex-reassignment surgery.
Federal judges so far have prohibited the Trump order from being implemented.
