US Defense Secretary puts temporary hold on Trump transgender ban in military

US President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary James Mattis has frozen a planned halt on transgender people in the military.

President Trump signed a memorandum on Friday directing US forces not to accept transgender people as recruits...but Secretary Mattis says current policy will remain in place until a review requested by the White House has been completed.

Our Washington correspondent Giles Gibson reports:

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