Another day, another federal court stuffed with activist judges who believe their rulings should be based on hurting President Donald Trump.

Critics of the decision argue that the military has always drawn hard lines: age limits, medical disqualifications, physical benchmarks that exclude millions without apology. Service is a privilege, not a universal right. To them, lumping gender-identity restrictions in with unconstitutional discrimination blurs the line between civil rights law and battlefield necessity. For now, the court left intact the ban on new transgender enlistments—but the precedent it sets could reshape every future fight over who is “fit” to serve.