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AILSA CHANG, HOST: President Biden has signed an executive order ending the Trump administration's ban on transgender people serving in the military. Starting immediately, service members cannot be discharged or denied reenlistment because of their gender identity. And the order calls for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to reexamine the records of service members who may have been disciplined under the prior policy. We turn now to Lt. Col. Bree Fram. Fram serves in the Air Force and is vice president of SPARTA, a transgender military organization. We spoke back in 2019. Hel...

Anita Rao 00:00 In the fall of 2019, I was a budding journalist living in New York City. I had an internship with the oral history project StoryCorps,

Anita says all the time "what's personal is political." So, she's interested to see how a new presidential administration will affect the ability of

Dec 22, 2020 8:08 PM EDT When President Bill Clinton signed the 1993 bill that became known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” rehashing the military’s World War II-era ban on gay and lesbian service members, it was still abstract for Bridget Altenburg, who was then in her junior year at West Point. She was not yet serving in the military, nor had she come out as gay. But once she did, at age 24 while stationed in Germany, the law had real-life implications. Feeling the relief of self-acceptance, Altenburg came out to some supportive friends in her unit. But...