An active-duty service member has undergone gender reassignment surgery, the Pentagon said Tuesday. He followed that a month later with a formal order telling the Pentagon to extend the ban. In September, Mattis sent out a memo making clear that transgender service members can continue to enlist, as the Pentagon grapples with how to implement Trump's ban. Because the ban on transgender service members was only removed last year, gender reassignment surgeries have so far been relatively rare. The Pentagon did not provide additional details on Tuesday's surgery, due to privacy restrictions.

Source: Fox News November 15, 2017 03:11 UTC