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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tara Copp

Groups are ready to file the first lawsuit to challenge Trump's new order on transgender troops

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Advocacy groups are set to file the first lawsuit Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order for the Pentagon to revise its policy on transgender troops, likely setting up ban on their service in the armed forces.

It is the same legal team that spent years fighting Trump’s ban on transgender troops in his first administration, tying it up in the courts before then-President Joe Biden scrapped it when he took office.

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