A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has temporarily blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people to serve in the military.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Trump administration from enacting the policy and offered a scathing rebuke of the Pentagon's development of the policy.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s restrictions on transgender people serving in the military while a lawsuit challenging the ban is litigated.