2026年8月28日 美国东部时间下午4:26 / CNN
作者：约翰·弗里茨（John Fritze）
J. 斯科特·阿普怀特/美联社
特朗普政府已请求最高法院维持其禁止美国跨性别者服役的政策，这是近年来涉及美国跨性别群体的又一起提交给保守派占多数的最高法院的重大案件。
去年就职数天后，特朗普签署行政命令，指示国防部将跨性别服役人员认定为不符合兵役条件。目前政府正在就华盛顿特区一家联邦法院的裁决提起上诉，该法院站在一批已服役的跨性别美国人一边。
“美国军方决定哪些人可以入伍保卫国家的权力具有极其重要的意义，”美国副检察长D.约翰·索尔向最高法院表示。CNN审阅了这份尚未公开归档的上诉文件副本。
最高法院大概率将在今年秋季决定是否审理此案。如果法院同意开庭审理，判决结果可能于明年初夏出炉。
国防部官员表示，现役、预备役和国民警卫队中共有4240名服役人员被诊断出患有性别烦躁症，该病症指个体性别认同与出生时指定性别不符时所感受到的心理痛苦。并非所有跨性别者都患有性别烦躁症。
美国跨性别群体近年来在由6名保守派大法官、3名自由派大法官组成的最高法院遭遇了一系列重大挫败。今年早些时候，该院以6票支持、3票反对的多数票维持了州级禁令，禁止跨性别学生参加女子运动队。去年，法院同样以6比3的投票结果，维持了田纳西州一项禁止为寻求性别确认治疗的未成年人开具青春期阻断剂和激素疗法的法律。
特朗普在2024年竞选期间曾大肆攻击美国跨性别群体，上任后也实施了多项政策，旨在逆转近年来跨性别群体取得的权益进展。特朗普在第一任期内就曾禁止跨性别者参军，但前总统乔·拜登于2021年废除了这项政策。
特朗普的这项政策去年曾以紧急案件形式提交至最高法院，当时法院允许总统实施该禁令。如同紧急裁决中的常见情况，法院未解释其裁决理由。三名自由派大法官公开对该裁决表示异议，但同样未说明立场。
但自那以后，下级法院陆续发布了多项限制该政策的裁决。今年6月，美国哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院的一个分歧三人法官小组裁定，维持对28名提起诉讼的服役人员的禁令保护。维权人士表示，政府一直在积极推动将其他跨性别服役人员排除在外。
“在尚无一家法院作出最终判决之前，特朗普政府就希望最高法院迅速介入，批准将久经考验、功勋卓著的士兵驱逐出军队，”全国LGBTQ权利中心法律主任香农·明特说道。“本案不存在巡回法院判决分歧，不存在紧急情况，也没有任何法律依据——仅有的只是一项被多家法院认定为出于偏见而非军事必要性的政策。”
Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold military’s ban on transgender service members
2026-08-28 4:26 PM ET / CNN
By John Fritze
The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, on August 25.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to uphold its policy banning transgender Americans from serving in the military, the latest significant case involving trans Americans to reach the conservative court in recent years.
Days after taking office last year, Trump signed an executive order directing the Pentagon to ban transgender service members as incompatible with military service. The administration is appealing a ruling from a federal court in Washington, DC, that sided with a group of trans Americans who were already serving.
“The authority of the US military to determine who may serve in the nation’s armed forces is a matter of exceptional importance,” US Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the Supreme Court, according to a copy of the appeal reviewed by CNN that has not yet been publicly docketed.
The Supreme Court will likely decide this fall whether to hear arguments in the case. If it agrees to do so, a decision may land early next summer.
Defense officials have said there are 4,240 service members across active-duty, reserve, and the National Guard ranks with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, defined as the psychological distress an individual feels when their gender identity differs from their gender at birth. Not every transgender individual has gender dysphoria.
Trans Americans have faced a series of significant setbacks at the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court. Earlier this year, a 6-3 majority upheld state bans on transgender students playing on girls’ sports teams. Last year, in another 6-3 ruling, the court let stand a Tennessee law that banned puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors seeking to transition to match their gender identity.
Trump campaigned aggressively against trans Americans in 2024 and implemented several policies once in office intended to roll back gains made by transgender people in recent years. The president also banned transgender Americans from joining the military during his first term, but former President Joe Biden repealed that policy in 2021.
Trump’s policy reached the Supreme Court last year in an emergency case, in which the court allowed the president to enforce the ban. As is often the case in emergency rulings, the court did not explain its reasoning. The three liberal justices publicly dissented from the decision, but also did not explain their position.
But since then lower courts have issued new rulings limiting the policy. A divided three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in June upheld a block on the policy for 28 service members who sued. Advocates say that the administration has been aggressively pursuing separation of other trans service members.
“The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to rush in and bless the expulsion of proven, decorated soldiers before a single court has issued a final judgment,” said Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights. “There is no circuit split, no emergency, and no merit – only a policy that multiple courts have now found was driven by prejudice rather than military need.”
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