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New Report: Open Trans Military Service "Administratively Feasible"

Our colleagues at the Palm Center at San Francisco State University this week issued a new report finding that allowing open military service for transgender people "is administratively feasible and neither excessively complex nor burdensome." The study, "Report of the Planning Commission on Transgender Military Service," comes from a commission of experts including three retired Generals and serves as a road map for the U.S. Department of Defense to review their regulations that disallow open transgender military service. The report comes three months after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he is open to reviewing the regulations that bar transgender people from serving openly, and ahead of the three year anniversary of the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." National Center for Transgender Equality commends the findings of this report and calls on the Defense Department to initiate the review. NCTE is confident that open transgender military service is inevitable and we will continue to work until it is achieved. Read the report here.

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