Transgender People Twice as Likely to Join Military as General Population

[JI7]

<President Trump announced on Wednesday a new policy barring trans people from serving "in any capacity" in the military and claiming that their service creates "tremendous medical costs and disruption."

But about one-fifth of the transgender population in the US are veterans of the military — meaning that transgender people serve in the military at approximately twice the rate of the general population, according to a 2014 report by researchers at the UCLA School of Law.

The UCLA study found that around 20% of transgender people enlist in the military, compared to around 10% for the general population.

Trans military members give a wide range of reasons for their decision to enlist, according to an LA Times article exploring the issue in 2015. Some said they joined the military with the hopes of gaining financial security and community support that they had difficulty finding elsewhere. Others said they used their military service as an escape from pressures to conform within their communities.

There is insufficient research to support any general theories about why transgender Americans disproportionately enlist. >

http://www.businessinsider.com/transgender-people-twice-as-likely-to-serve-military-trump-ban-2017-7

[Alice11111]

1. It is so crazy, if these brave &honorable people want to

enlist in the military, they must. I hope the enlisting agents keep doing their jobs. Some probably will.

For those who are already there, stay, the "Jeff Sessions Rule," I'm not leaving.

For such a bully as DT, this is the greatest thing ever that people are ignoring his immoral idiocy. One way to get rid of him is to make him irrelevant, as he is a Fake President anyway.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

What most civilians don't know about the military would fill a library.

What Trump doesn't know about the military makes those people look like tactical phenoms.

[IronLionZion]

3. Republicans never think of trans men

like ever