When was America Great? Trump’s Coded Promise and the Transgender Ban

On January 22, 2019, the Supreme Court ruled to stay an injunction that would have blocked the Trump Administration’s armed forces transgender policy. Effectively, military service members who are already openly transgender can remain in the services without retribution, but those who are closeted must remain so or risk expulsion, and no new, openly transgender members may join the military unless the courts eventually deny the policy’s legality.