Pentagon officials meet to dismantle transgender banhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/21/transgender-troops/32019625/USA Today/Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY 12:08 p.m. EDT August 21, 2015
"WASHINGTON – Top Pentagon leaders met this week for the first time to begin dismantling the military's ban on transgender troops, a senior Defense Department official told USA TODAY.
The committee of about 25 senior personnel officials from each service met Wednesday to discuss issues affecting the estimated 12,800 transgender troops who serve in silence because their condition disqualifies them under Pentagon medical regulations. Last month, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that the ban would be reviewed with the assumption that transgender troops would be able to serve openly in six months."
