Judge: Transgender rule causes military stigma

BALTIMORE — President Donald Trump’s proposed transgender military ban stigmatizes an entire group of people and is likely already having a negative effect on active-duty service members trying to plan for future military assignments, a federal judge said Thursday.

The comments from U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis came during a court hearing in Baltimore in one of four cases throughout the country brought by transgender service members challenging the administration’s policy slated to take effect in March. sexual assault after being charged with repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl at his Long Island home.

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The announcement comes a day after the U.N.’s humanitarian chief warned that unless the coalition lifts its blockade, the war-torn nation will face “the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims.”

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