A federal judge considering whether to indefinitely block President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender service members described it on Tuesday as having “unadulterated animus” toward transgender Americans.

In a sometimes-fiery hearing, a judge said the Trump administration’s assertion that troops’ pronouns are harming military readiness is “frankly ridiculous.”

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes blasted President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military on Tuesday. Reyes called the order’s assertion that trans pronoun use undermines troop effectiveness “frankly ridiculous” and evidence of Trump’s “unadulterated animus” against trans individuals.