LGBTQ groups attempt to block Trump’s military ‘transgender’ ban
Taking a page from the tactics of anti-Trump illegal immigration advocates, two LGBTQ legal groups are suing President Trump to block his plan to ban "transgender" service in the U.S. Armed Forces . Two major homosexual legal organizations, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), filed a federal lawsuit today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to block Trump's "transgender" military ban, which Trump announced via Twitter on July 26, and for which he issued policy guidance last week. "The suit, Doe v. Trump, was filed on behalf of 5 transgender service members with nearly 60 years of combined military service," states a GLAD press release issued on behalf of both homosexual-transgender organizations. It quotes one of the suit's plaintiffs: “Last year, the Department of Defense announced that transgender people could serve openly ... I was...