The Pentagon could in the coming months lift the ban on transgender people openly serving in the U.S. military, after Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced a plan to study “readiness implications of welcoming transgender persons to serve openly.” Currently those in the military who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria or who identify as transgender are not permitted to take hormones or act upon their transgender status by dressing in military uniforms or living in barracks different from their established government status. If realized, the plan would end what is seen as one of the last discriminatory rules about who can enlist or be commissioned in the American military. It would also be a tacit recognition that thousands of transgender people are already in uniform.
Pentagon may lift ban on transgender people
