"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. David Eastburn, a Pentagon spokesman, says the enlistment of transgender recruits will start Jan. 1 and go on amid the legal battles." http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/11/pentagon-to-allow-transgender-people-to-enlist-in-military.html [foxnews.com]