The Military is not a social program. It's a force measured on its lethality. Hate all you want but people who suffer from Gender Dysphoria should not service, just like anyone else who suffers from mental illness. These people need help, not to have their illness be accepted as normal. Some people believe the recent move towards accepting Trans people is being compassionate but nothing could be farther from the truth. These people have extremely higher rates of self destructive behavioral disorders and mental illness later in life and not to mention an alarmingly high suicide rate.

These people require compassionate treatment and care. Stop normalizing mental illness.

Good for the transgender I say. The US military is a cancer that serves the 1% of USA and causes war for them in the middle east. I am against armies in general but US army might be the worst of the worst

Thank you for your well thought out and respectful response. I really respect that.

Just wow....utter disgrace. Idiocracy is real. Brawndo's got electrolytes!

I'm more in favor of CTRL-ALT-Right-DEL

Exactly this.  Everyone is all up in arms over nonsense.

They are a burden on the US financially, this is not about the LGBT community at all.  The military is not social program.

I can understand this decision. I'm not saying it's ethically right but when it comes to military and war, it's definitely the right decision. It's clear a lot of people here don't have military experience and thus don't understand the dynamics at all. I'm not going to dig very deep but let's be honest here. One and perhaps the biggest problem of all is this, a transgender person in army simply has no authority at all regardless of rank. That's it.

I'm going to challenge you here. I think StarOcean is twisting your words, but I can understand why they are so offended by your comment.

"Being happy for" someone and "being happy" that something happened are not the same thing. That said, I feel you are showing a huge lack of understanding of what drives someone to even comtenplate, let alone attempt, suicide. In the most basic terms, its is a lasr resort when their outlook on their life is that things can't get worse but will never get better and an act of sheer desperation to end their suffering. To say you are happy they succeeded is warped to say the least.

Seems like an absolutely pointless move. Considering that there really aren't such a huge number of trans soldiers in the army, the cost excuse is just that, an excuse. Especially since the US already spends an absolutely massive amount of money on their army in general, so whatever this saves them is nothing in comparison. I also don't understand the point some people are making that trans people are somehow inherently worse in combat situations. What exactly is the logic behind that?

It's done by medical professions. You are saying breast/penis enlargement surgery is also mutilation.