Jul 27, 2017 · 1 min read
Certainly the Trump administration could have handled this situation better. The published suicide rates for trans people suggest that we might not want to be giving them machine guns though. That there is a very high amount of instability that is at the very least a correlation with being trans gender. Particularly high are the rates of people at the age they would be serving in the military(45% according to surveys have claimed to have attempted to take their own life). Personally I would prefer that the military set their own standards based on best practices for them. I don’t like politics playing a role.