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.

A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from the armed forces, holding that the directive was “soaked in animus” toward a minority group and was “unabashedly demeaning.

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.