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		</div><p>The Trump administration can go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women while court challenges continue, the US Supreme Court has said.</p>
<p>The high court split 5-4 in allowing the plan to take effect, with the court’s five conservatives backing it and its four liberal members saying they would not have.</p>
<p>The order from the court was brief and procedural, with no elaboration from the justices.</p>
<p>The court’s decision clears the way for the Pentagon to bar enlistment by people who have undergone a gender transition.</p>
<p>It will also allow the administration to require that military personnel serve as members of their biological gender unless they began a gender transition under less restrictive Obama administration rules.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Transgender military members have the courage to serve our country and deserve to do so. We have to fight back to reverse this. <a href="https://t.co/ln495C3RUR">https://t.co/ln495C3RUR</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1087737947774951425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Trump administration has sought for more than a year to change the Obama-era rules and had urged the justices to take up cases about its transgender troop policy immediately, but the court declined for now.</p>
<p>Those cases will continue to move through lower courts and could eventually reach the Supreme Court again.</p>
<p>The fact that five justices were willing to allow the policy to take effect for now, however, makes it more likely the Trump administration’s policy will ultimately be upheld.</p>
<p>Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said the department was pleased with the court’s decision.</p>
<p><em>“The Department of Defense has the authority to create and implement personnel policies it has determined are necessary to best defend our nation,”</em> she said, adding that lower court rulings had forced the military to <em>“maintain a prior policy that poses a risk to military effectiveness and lethality.”</em></p>
<p>Groups that sued over the Trump administration’s policy said they ultimately hoped to win their lawsuits against the policy.</p>
<p>Jennifer Levi, an attorney for GLBTQ Legal Advocates &; Defenders, said in a statement that the “Trump administration’s cruel obsession with ridding our military of dedicated and capable service members because they happen to be transgender defies reason and cannot survive legal review”.</p>
<p>Until a few years ago service members could be discharged from the military for being transgender. That changed under the Obama administration.</p>
<p>The military announced in 2016 that transgender people already serving in the military would be allowed to serve openly.</p>
<p>And the military set July 1, 2017, as the date when transgender individuals would be allowed to enlist.</p>
<p>But after President Donald Trump took office, the administration delayed the enlistment date, saying the issue needed further study.</p>
<p>And in late July 2017 the president tweeted that the government would not allow “Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the US Military”.</p>
<p>He later directed the military to return to its policy before the Obama administration changes.</p>
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