Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com)

Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would not allow transgender individuals to serve in the US military in any capacity. From a report: The US president tweeted: "After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow ... transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military." He added: "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming ... victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail." Trump's decision marks a sharp reversal of a policy initiated under Barack Obama, in which the Pentagon ended a longtime ban on transgender people from serving openly in the military. As a candidate, Trump cast himself as a supporter of LGBT rights and indicated he would uphold certain Obama-era policies designed to protect transgender people.

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Re:It makes sense

[Oswald McWeany]

If a soldier has to take Hormone replacement pills every day, and then they are suddenly unavailable, I could see it causing some issues.

So are you suggesting an event like this:

Sgt. Bigman: Pvt Wassman, go shoot those Ruskies over there or the whole unit will perish.

Pvt Wassmann: Sorry Sarge! I ran out of hormone pills today, I can't carry out my orders.

* BOOM * - Entire US army wiped out because Wassmann ran out of hormone pills

I can see that being a legitimate concern. Just like people who normally take migraine medicine might run out of that- and then they will kill everyone and not follow orders rather than have a migraine.

Or how diabetics go psycho and mass murder their comrades when they miss their insulin.