The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration can move forward with a ban on transgender military service members for now, lifting a lower court injunction against the policy after a judge ruled it was an "unsupported, dramatic and facially unfair exclusionary policy."

The government filed an emergency appeal to the justices in the name of “military readiness and the Nation’s interests.”

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to institute its ban on transgenders serving in the military. In an order that all three liberal justices opposed, the high court ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Bree Fram, a U.S. Space Force officer, about the Supreme Court decision to allow the Trump administration's ban on trans troops to continue being enacted.

The ruling allows the armed forces to discharge the thousands of current transgender troops and reject new recruits while legal challenges play out.