The Pentagon released its guidance on service by transgender persons Wednesday, which grandfathers current troops under a 2016 policy that allows them to serve openly in their preferred gender.
Recruits who join the U.S. military after April 12, however, will be required to serve in their biological gender and meet the physical standards of that sex.
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