Title: White House appoints transgender Czar to transform US military Source:
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A military watchdog says there's no rational reason for the Pentagon to allow so-called "transgendered" people to serve in the U.S. military.
"If you make policies based on political situations, it will degrade the culture of the military, cultural values, core values and all the rest," observes Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness.
The fight over transgendered is now the latest fight.
In July, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that the Department of Defense intended to lift the ban on transgender troops and create a working group to study the implications over six months.
According to a draft memo obtained by USA Today, the Pentagon will end the ban next May.
In the meantime, troops can reportedly serve as openly transgender, and it will require high-level approval to discharge troops of that orientation.
A defense official told USA Today that U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force leaders know of about 20 transgender troops in both services. But the story says that number could be as high as 12,000, and it could cost more than $5 million annually to treat them.
People who are transgender say they identify as the opposite of their gender at birth.
Despite the softer term, the diagnosis of "gender dysphoria" currently disqualfies transgenders from military service, the USA Today story reports.
The Pentagon is also considering revisiting the discharge status of transgender troops who have been kicked out of the service.
Reacting to that announcement, Donnelly says the Pentagon is now considering giving "civil rights claims" to people who are considered medically unqualified for military service.
"The decision just announced is disturbing," says Donnelly, "because of the fact that there is no rationale for doing this."
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