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Confidential Pentagon Memo Says Transgender Soldiers Can Defer Deployment While on Hormones

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Confidential Pentagon Memo Says Transgender Soldiers Can Defer Deployment While on Hormones
Transgender Army veteran Tanya Walker speaks to protesters upset about a reinstated ban on transgender service members in the U.S. military near a military recruitment center in Times Square in New York on July 26, 2017. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
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Transgender soldiers will be allowed to delay deployment for up to 300 days while using cross-sex hormones during their “transition” and waive physical fitness standards, according to a confidential Pentagon memo.

The Feb. 1 Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC) memo said that the delay in deployment was needed so the transgender soldier could “stabilize” while taking hormones.
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
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Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.
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