President Trump announced Wednesday that the "United States Government will not accept or allow [t]ransgender [sic] individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military."  The announcement came via Twitter (tweets available at the links in this paragraph), with Trump basing his decision in part on "the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail." A few clarifications are in order here. First, when Trump uses the word "transgender," what he means is men – people with Y-chromosomes in their cells – who think they are women and women – people with two X-chromosomes in their cells – who think they are men. Second, when Trump mentions "medical costs," he is probably referring to controversy surrounding the concept of taxpayer-funded hormone injections and surgeries for people attempting to make themselves into members of the opposite sex.  These presumably...(Read Full Post)