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

COLORADO, USA — U.S. Army Major Kara Corcoran, a transgender infantry officer with 17 years of service and two deployments to Afghanistan, is among an estimated 1,000 service members facing discharge under the Trump administration’s reinstated ban on transgender individuals in the military.

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