President Trump's tweets announcing that he will order the military to reimpose a ban on so-called transsexual service members may please his political base, and also further galvanize political opposition on the left, but as a matter of policy, it is a muddle he might have best left alone.  The problem is not that President Obama's lifting of the ban was a good thing, or that reimposing the ban is necessarily wrong.  It's that transsexuals are hardly a serious problem for the military today, and legally, the situation regarding sex and sexual identity in the military is a morass. Good evidence of this was the ambivalent-sounding response to Trump's tweets by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announcing "no modifications to the current policy" pending further guidance from the secretary of defense.  For his part, Defense Secretary James Mattis said much the same thing through a spokesperson, citing pending guidance from the White House, with some...(Read Full Article)