- [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Denis McDonough made the announcement at an Orlando event marking Pride
- He spoke a week after the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting
- McDonough said that the new policy was 'the right thing to do'
- A VA spokesman said they expect fewer than 4,000 people to take up the offer
- Biden in January signed an executive order overturning a 2017 Trump administration ban on transgender individuals serving in the military
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