Finally, someone in the U.S. government is standing up for trans people.

On Tuesday, a federal judge in Washington. D.C., temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order barring transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. It’s one of the many ways Trump and Republicans are crusading against what they refer to as “radical gender ideology.”

“Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender servicemembers have sacrificed – some risking their lives – to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the Military Ban seeks to deny them,” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes wrote in

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