Momentum grows to scrap Pentagon's ban on transgender troops
There is renewed energy on Capitol Hill to lift the Defense Department's ban on transgender troops.
Lawmakers view recent steps by the Pentagon and some of the armed services to expand protections for gay and lesbian troops as an opportunity to do away with the decades-old prohibition on allowing transgender troops to serve openly.
They are also taking note of other societal changes in calling for the ban on service by transgender trips to be lifted.