A federal court on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from separating two transgender service members from the military under a pair of executive orders while another case moves forward.

Two transgender men, Master Sgt. Logan Ireland and Staff Sgt. Nicholas Bear Bade, had argued in a lawsuit that President Trump’s executive orders proclaiming the government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, and barring trans people from serving openly in the military subject them and other trans service members “to unequal, harmful, and demeaning treatment.”

Ireland and Bade, both members of the U.S. Air Force, also challenged the implementation of those orders by Acting Air Force Secretary Gary Ashworth and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who over the weekend mocked on social media the Washington, D.C., judge who said Trump’s ban on trans military service is “soaked in animus” and blocked it nationwide.........

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