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On September 26, Gavin Newsom signed a six-bill package aimed squarely at Trump administration policies: help for trans service members pushed out of the military, shields for gender-affirming care records, an updated conversion therapy law and more PrEP access.
At least a dozen transgender service members discharged under Trump's military ban say they're still waiting for separation pay, in one case more than $300,000. Seven House Democrats want the Pentagon's numbers.
After a Senate inquiry, the federal government has committed to a formal apology and Certificates of Honourable Service for personnel punished under decades of discriminatory defence policy. The Senate again declined financial redress.
Service members and medical providers describe a rush to identify and separate transgender personnel ahead of 15 September — the point at which an injunction and class certification in Talbott v. United States could finally take effect.
The Justice Department has petitioned the Supreme Court to lift an injunction protecting 29 transgender service members in Talbott v. United States, seeking discharges to begin before the case even goes to trial in 2027.
By a 212-217 vote, the U.S. House rejected an amendment that would have codified the ban on transgender troops — with four Republicans crossing the aisle to kill it.
A divided D.C. Circuit panel ruled on the first day of Pride Month that the Pentagon's ban on transgender service likely violates equal protection — and blocked the removal of the troops who sued.
Two days after the Supreme Court lifted the injunction blocking Trump's transgender military ban in Shilling v. Trump, the Pentagon has begun moving roughly 1,000 service members toward immediate separation under Hegseth's 30/60-day self-separation deadlines.
