US government lodges another bid to fire transgender service members

Courts found the ban violated soldiers’ rights to due process – but the US government is denying this (Picture: AFP)

The US government has appealed to remove 29 active-duty transgender service members before their case against the Pentagon’s ban goes to trial next year.

The move comes a week after Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth told a crowd: ‘At the Department of War, we do training, not tr***ies.’

A ban on transgender service members went ahead last year, but now, ...