Military “TransBan”: Dissecting Trump’s Random Tweets.
The United States Military has always been a reflection of true American values: Each individual, of every race and gender, standing side by side to defend, protect, and bravely serve this country.
Apparently, President Trump feels that nearly 15,500 of those individuals have suddenly become “too expensive” for the United States and present a burden and disruption.
On Wednesday, July 26th, President Donald Trump tweeted the following:

Unlike his ride or die supporters, I do not have time to think of some elaborate justification that usually begins with “What Trump really meant was….”. My review is based solely on what he said, again I quote:
“The United States Government will no longer accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity of the U.S Military. Our military must be focused on decisive victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail”. — Donald Trump
Since our lovely President tweeted this huge bombshell and continued to live his day, let’s digest this together, shall we?
1. “Will no longer accept or allow…”
What does this mean for current transgender individuals serving in the military?
2. “Decisive victory”
Mr. Trump, the same military who successfully killed Osama bin Laden suddenly doesn't seem “focused on decisive victory” to you?
3. “Tremendous medical costs”
- A. If this were really about medical costs the tweet should have read “The U.S Military will no longer fund an individual gender-transition due to a plan to reduce medical costs”.
- B. FYI: This ban has nothing to do with medical costs. It has everything to do with hate; and sadly, the transgender community is collateral damage.
President Trump won the 2016 election after using hateful rhetoric during his campaign that was directed at nearly every member of society. If you weren’t a rich, healthy, white male, Trump “spoke his mind” about you. There was one individual he hated the most: President Obama.
Everything Donald Trump has done thus far in his presidency has been an attempt to erase the progress of President Obama; without consideration of the American people’s welfare. He is attempting to repeal and replace Obamacare at the expense of 24 million Americans. He reversed First Lady Michelle Obama’s healthy eating actions at the expense of American children. He “saved jobs” by offering wealthy companies huge tax cuts; and don’t be fooled, your wages are not going to increase. His actions against transgender individuals are no different.
The military has not historically covered gender-transition surgeries until President Obama announced plans to do so in 2016. RAND estimated the cost of providing transition-related care to those people. The study found that healthcare costs for the active component of the military would increase by between $2.4 million and $8.4 million annually, which comes out to a 0.04% to 0.13% increase.
Even in the extreme case, it is one tenth of the annual $84 million that military spends on erectile dysfunction.
The Military “TransBan” is truthfully Donald Trump’s way of erasing something President Obama put in place just for the sake of it. He is taking this action at the expense of the transgender individuals who have honorably served this country and given Donald Trump the right to tweet such an ignorant statement.
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