http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/numbers-transgender-individuals-serving-us-military/story?id=48869563
How many transgender individuals serve in the military?
Advocacy organizations have wide-ranging estimates on how many transgender people may be serving in the military.
The 2016 Rand study, titled "Assessing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly," estimates that between 1,320 and 6,630 of 1.3 million active duty service members may be transgender.
A mid-range estimate states that 2,450 active duty service members and 1,510 members in the U.S. reserves may be transgender, according to the study.
The Department of Defense does not provide official numbers on transgender service members, but four of the military services have some numbers that indicate how very few active duty members of the military have officially self-identified as transgender.
One defense official said the number of service members that have identified as transgender is in the low hundreds. The Associated Press previously reported that 80 Army soldiers, including those in the National Guard and Reserves, 160 Navy sailors and a handful of Marines identified as transgender, while the Air Force did not provide numbers. Another defense official confirmed that those previously reported numbers were accurate.
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