20 State AGs File Brief Supporting LGBT Group’s Suit Against Transgender Military Ban

A legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning people who identify as transgender from serving in the military exposes great division.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Jan. 31, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP

Twenty state attorneys general have filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s executive orders that ban people who identify as transgender from serving in the military.

The attorneys general said the ban is “unconstitutional” and “harms national security.”