Should Transgender Persons Serve?

In response to the President's memorandum "military service for the transgender people" on August 25, 2017, the Department of Defense conducted an implementation plan to address transgender issues currently in the US military and the transgender Has been formulated. In the coming months in the recommendation of Secretary of Defense to the White House by James Matisse, the division has the right to tackle a plan to "promote military readiness, mortality rate and unit unity" while appropriately considering budget constraints and compliance there is. Law "1

The theme of the transgender service caused a wide passionate reaction. For many people they may never talk to the people of the transgender and it may be new and unfamiliar territory. Unfortunately, there are many myths, stereotypes, and there are lies about the confusion between the transgender people and the facts. What information is accurate and what is "fake news"? What does a transgender mean? Are transgender members suitable for service? How will migration affect military service? How much is it? How does this affect the unchanged members of the organization? Together with various cultural, social, political, media and religious perspectives, it is extremely difficult to assess the situation fairly based on facts. The purpose of this paper is to separate facts from fiction to assess whether transgendered members should be allowed to serve in the army.

Historically, transgender people are not allowed to serve in the US military. Transgender status is considered a non-limiting mental illness, and sexual redistribution surgery is a non-limiting physical condition. However, transgender activists are promoting policy changes. The story of the most famous transgender service members in the United States tends to exacerbate concern that these people are not suitable for military service. Bradley Manning was a soldier who was convicted of spying in 2013 by handing confidential documents to the WikiLeaks website. Two days after Manning was imprisoned, he "transformed"

Until recently, individuals with a "degenerative condition" had been disqualified from joining the US (US) army. In July 2015, the Defense Minister Ashton-Carter condemned the working group studying the policies and preparation of allowing trans-people to open their services. At the same time, Carter allowed relaxation of the current transgender military policy. In June 2016, the US Department of Defense (DoD) announced a policy to allow transgender people to launch services and postpone migration-related healthcare. Currently, in 19 countries including the United States, the trans-people are allowed to serve the army frankly.

The US military is presumed to have thousands of actively serving members of the transgender and the Department of Defense (DoD) is the employer of the largest transgender people in the United States. Thousands of transgender Americans, including more than 134,000 transgender veterans living today, enjoy honor and honor in our troops.