{"id":4326,"date":"2025-12-16T17:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:27:26","slug":"trump-picked-appeals-court-judges-side-with-hegseth-policy-to-kick-out-trans-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/16\/trump-picked-appeals-court-judges-side-with-hegseth-policy-to-kick-out-trans-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-picked appeals court judges side with Hegseth policy to kick out trans troops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two Trump-appointed appeals court judges upheld a policy directed by former Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to ban transgender service members from the U.S. military. The ruling dissolved a lower court order that had blocked the ban, with the judges arguing the policy &#8220;furthers legitimate military interests.&#8221; A dissenting Obama-appointed judge strongly criticized the decision, labeling the policy &#8220;openly hostile&#8221; and based solely on &#8220;blatant animus.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 9, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/pete-hegseth-transgender-military-ban-appeals-court-ruling-b2881309.html\">independent.co<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Trump-appointed appeals court judges upheld a policy directed by former Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to ban transgender service members from the U.S. military. The ruling dissolved a lower court order that had blocked the ban, with the judges arguing the policy &#8220;furthers legitimate military interests.&#8221; A dissenting Obama-appointed judge strongly criticized the decision, labeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":4328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}