Trans troops in US military 'in survival mode' as ban on serving kicks in

Two transgender officers say they fear their military careers are over due to Trump’s ban on trans service members.
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But there was a complication.
Two days before the ceremony, Kara was told that she would need to conform to male regulations, which meant wearing male uniform and cutting the long blonde hair she had grown since she told the Army she identified as a woman in 2018.
The directive had come from the Pentagon, and filtered down through her chain of command at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
"Nothing about me is a man, but we're going to force me into male regs just so I can walk across the stage with my peers," she said in the hours leading up to the ceremony. "It's not my choice to cut my hair. I'm doing it because I have to."
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