the complaint seeks an immediate injunction based on the fifth amendment, and in it, eqca noted "the stated bases offered in support of defendants' august 25 directive are pretextual, arbitrary, capricious, and unsupported by facts, evidence, or analysis" and that "transgender people have been serving openly [since 2016] without incident or any negative impact upon military readiness, lethality, unit cohesion, or the national defense generally." on october 2, the plaintiffs filed a motion for a preliminary injunction.