Brief of Amici Curiae Vice Admiral Donald C. Arthur, USN (Ret.), former Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy; Major General Gale Pollock, USA (Ret.), former Acting Surgeon General of the U.S. Army; and Rear Admiral Alan M. Steinman, USPHS/USCG (Ret.), Former Director of Health and Safety of the U.S. Coast Guard in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees and Intervenor-Plaintiff Appellee
Dozens of retired U.S. military officers and former national security officials have joined states attorneys general, the country's leading medical associations and leading civil rights organizations - including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund - in nine friend-of-the-court briefs urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold the lower court ruling in Karnoski v. Trump and maintain the ban on implementation of the Trump administration's discriminatory ban on transgender military service.
BRIEF OF THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY, THE
SOUTHERN ARIZONA GENDER ALLIANCE, THE TRANS YOUTH EQUALITY
FOUNDATION, TRANSCEND LEGAL, TRANSGENDER ALLIES GROUP,
TRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND & TRANSGENDER
RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW MEXICO AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES AND AFFIRMANCE
AMICI CURIAE BRIEF OF THE SERVICE WOMEN’S ACTION NETWORK, CALIFORNIA WOMEN LAWYERS, CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL SEXUALITY AND GENDER LAW CLINIC, CONNECTICUT WOMEN’S EDUCATION AND LEGAL FUND, EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES, LEGAL VOICE, MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE, NATIONAL WOMEN’S LAW CENTER, AND THE WOMEN’S BAR ASSOCIATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES AND INTERVENOR PLAINTIFF APPELLEE
Brief of amici curiae American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, and nine other health care organizations in support of plaintiffs-appellees.
