The Pentagon may announce as soon as Tuesday a plan to lift the ban within the next six months on transgender people openly serving in the U.S. military, a defense official says.
The official said the White House has been pressing the Pentagon to move ahead with ending the ban, following a recent Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage.
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