Pentagon to allow transgender people to enlist in military
(WorldNews Politics)

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is allowing transgender people to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, despite President Donald Trump`s opposition. The new policy reflects growing legal pressure on the issue, and the difficult hurdles the federal government would have to cross to enforce Trump`s demand to ban transgender individuals from the military. Two federal courts already have ruled against the ban. Potential transgender recruits will have to overcome a lengthy and strict set of physical, medical and mental conditions that make it possible, though difficult, for them to join the armed services. Maj....