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The Pentagon is expected to receive guidance from the White House in the coming days on how to implement a new administration ban on transgender people in the military. The trump administration recently issuing formal authority to expel transgender people from the military in an upcoming order, barring the Pentagon from recruiting transgender troops and cutting off payment for sexual reassignment surgery and other medical treatments for those already serving. In this new policy Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is allowed to consider a service member’s ability to deploy in deciding whether to kick them out of the military.

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