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Ethics and Transgender Service Members, Dependents, and Retirees.

INTRODUCTION It is estimated that the military currently has approximately 15,500 transgender service members. It has indicated it will soon be accepting openly transgendered members, as it accepted homosexual members a few years ago. This policy change will pose new ethical challenges for service members, military families, clinicians, and policy makers. This column will discuss several of these ethical challenges. Throughout this discussion, I shall refer to those who want to change their gender or have changed it as service members or persons, not patients, to avoid incorrectly implying that these persons have a disorder rather than a gender identity.