Hold Trump’s Line Barring Transgenders in Uniform

Today, a majority of Members of Congress will take the first in a series of reckless votes harmful to the national security.

They’ll do so – this time in a non-binding resolution, but soon in compulsory legislative language – by asserting, as President Obama did, that transgender individuals have a right to serve in the U.S. armed services.

No one is entitled to be in the military.

What transgenders actually have is an illness, usually diagnosed as “gender dysphoria,” a condition long recognized as incompatible with the duty to be deployable and an asset, not a liability, for the armed forces.

To his great credit, current Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump restored this commonsensical and necessary rule, thus sparing our men and women in uniform needless burdens and costs to the readiness, morale and cohesion of their units and to the common defense.

Hold that line.