A US appeals court has ruled that the Pentagon's policy to remove transgender troops was unlawfully motivated by a 'bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group.' This decision temporarily blocks the policy's implementation.

A panel ⁠of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a 2-1 ruling said the 2025 policy was unlawfully motivated “by the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group.”