Federal judge blocks Trump’s transgender military executive order

FoxNewsFlashtopheadlinesarehere.Checkoutwhat’sclickingonFoxnews.com. AfederaljudgeappointedbyformerPresidentJoeBidenhasblockedPresidentDonaldTrump’sexecutiveorderbanningtransgenderpeoplefromservingintheU.S.military.  U.S.DistrictJudgeAnaReyesinWashington,D.C.,issuedapreliminaryinjunctionbarringthePentagonfromenforcingTrump’sorder,whichasserted“expressingafalse‘genderidentity’divergentfromanindividual’ssexcannotsatisfytherigorousstandardsnecessaryformilitaryservice.”Theorder,issuedJan.27,instructedtheDepartmentofDefense(DOD)toupdateitsmedicalstandardsformilitaryserviceandpronounpolicies,statingthat“beyondthehormonalandsurgicalmedicalinterventionsinvolved,adoptionofagenderidentityinconsistentwithanindividual’ssexconflictswithasoldier’scommitmenttoanhonorable,truthful,anddisciplinedlifestyle,eveninone’spersonallife.”  Reyessaidthattheexecutiveorderlikelyposesc