Two federal appeals court judges appointed by Donald Trump are keeping in place a policy directed by the president to remove transgender service members from all branches of the U.S. military, an order that a dissenting judge called "gratuitously demeaning” and “openly hostile” to all trans Americans.

Ruling on Dec. 9 on the government’s appeal from a preliminary injunction against what the court calls the “Hegseth Policy” barring transgender people from

In the latest in a series of legal setbacks for Trump's deployments, a judge ruled the administration must end its deployment to Los Angeles and return control of National Guard troops to California.