Update: On March 24th, the New Jersey federal district court granted a Temporary Restraining Order to keep Staff Sergeant Nicholas Bear Bade and Master Sergeant Logan Ireland from being further impacted by the Trump administration’s transgender military ban while a case challenging it in D.C. federal district court moves forward. 

On March 17, 2025, GLAD Law and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), with Stapleton Segal Cochran LLC and Langer Grogan & Diver P.C., filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey seeking immediate court action to prevent two longstanding, high-ranking Air Force service members from being discharged from the military.

Our plaintiffs, Master Sergeant Logan Ireland and Staff Sergeant Nicholas Bear Bade, have faced significant disruption to their service following the Air Force’s rollout of policy to implement the Trump administration’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. Master Sergeant Ireland was pulled from a temporary duty assignment in New Jersey and Staff Sergeant Bade was pulled from deployment overseas and sent home.

On March 18th we filed a motion for a Temporary Restraining Order to prevent administrative separation proceedings against our plaintiffs. A hearing is scheduled in federal district court on March 24th.