President Trump’s announcement on Twitter Wednesday morning that transgender people would be barred from the United States military “in any capacity” marked a sudden reversal of a policy that had evolved rapidly under the Obama White House.

Here is a look at The New York Times’s coverage of the events leading to the lifting of the transgender ban in June 2016, and what has happened since.

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that the military should “continually” review its prohibition on transgender people in the armed forces.