XO to under trans ban in military. With trumps xo, a person must serve as their biological gender and cant receive any gender reassessment treatment.
Now they can ID as what ever and can receive treatment.
So guy/girl on hormone trearment gets deployed mid cycle. What could go wrong?
ID says male for a born female. Said soldier gets captured. All intel reports say a captired female is in AO. Not a "male". So military overlooks it cause a female, not a male was found. False intel report. What could go wrong?
Tax payers should not be providing ELECTIVE medical treatments or surgeries to soldiers. PERIOD!!
If the military pays for reassignment surgeries and all the other treatments needed to transition (counseling, hormones, augmentations, etc.), where does it end? I should be able to request treatments for baldness, teeth whitening, cosmetic surgery and other elective medical treatments, all paid by the DoD.
There are people leading normal 9-5 lives and decide to halt the transition process because it's just too much work. With the hormones, hair removal, makeup, and exercises needed to change their appearance, it's just too much work and inconvenience. Imagine trying to do that and maintain a 24/7/364 readiness posture.
I still think this issue involves too much of a psychological component to allow transgenders to serve. It's a risk. Statistically, almost half of transgenders attempt suicide -- about 40% that we know of. We have a rising rate of suicide in the military. Now, combine the two. See any problems?
I've read opinions on why transgenders attempt suicide. None of that matters, since the stats are the stats. DoD is about reducing risk for recruits, not taking on existing problems. We have enough applicants without mental health issues. No sense in giving that slot to a transgender and risking mission readiness.
The military has always been a Democrat playground for social experimentation. Where else can they order people to follow their behavioral dictates?