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[b]Fine. I'll continue here from the other locked thread.[/b]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Transgenders have a much higher suicide rate and other psychological problems. Don't need that in the military, especially where other people's lives are at risk in a high stress environment.

The military's mission is to kill people and destroy property. It's not a social experiment.

Trump did not say or do anything about gays or lesbians in the military.

Trump's not attacking or saying anything about their behavior or positions.

[b]He's focusing on a small group of people who identify as transgendered, and want to transitition while in the military.[/b]

If having a transgendered military is so important, why did obama wait till june 2016, to have Ash Carter change the policies to allow transgendered personnel into the military?
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I thought his edict applied to all trans people, regardless of whether they had already transitioned medically or even had any plans to do so.

Where do you draw your conclusion that it is limited from?[/quote]

AND as in both groups, not AND as in both qualifiers.[/quote]

Wait -- so what number qualifies as a "small group" for you, then?[/quote]

I don't know. 2400 people out of the whole military.. maybe?

DOD says 2,400.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2016/10/20/army-outlines-path-to-transition-for-transgender-soldiers/

"The Army does not track the number of transgender soldiers currently serving, according to Paul Prince, an Army spokesman, but a 2016 Rand Corp. report commissioned by the Defense Department estimated that there are about 2,400 transgender men and women currently serving in the military as a whole."

Trump technically didn't ban anybody that wasn't already "banned"...

Transsexualism has long been a "disqualifying factor" when entering the service as it is classified as a mental disorder.

http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/F01-F99/F60-F69/F64-/F64.0

https://community.apan.org/wg/saf-llm/m/documents/184254

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