lead story - New Pentagon transgender rule sets limits for troops

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NBC News

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Female and Transgender Troops Fear Exclusion in Trump’s Pentagon

Dan De Luce and Paul McLeary
Yahoo!

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Navy: No Exceptions to Fitness Standards for Transgender Sailors

Hope Hodge Seck
Military.com

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Defense Department Issues Transgender Handbook

Amy Bushatz
Military.com

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Pentagon to pay for ‘medically necessary’ sex-change operations for active transgender troops

Corey Dickstein
Stars and Stripes

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In a First, Openly Transgender Service Member Promoted

Fiona Dawson
NBC News

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Ban on transgender troops to be lifted July 1

Tom Vanden Brook
USA Today

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Pentagon celebrates LGBT pride while changes to its transgender policy are stalled

Dan Lamothe
The Washington Post

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