Supreme Court could decide if transgender troops are allowed to serve in the military

Cpl Jeff N. The term RP TG Maria is clearly designed to elicit an emotional response. Both this, and your misunderstanding of what a cross dresser is, and how they differ from transgender people demonstrate your ignorance. Further, they help to illustrate the need, not for a ban of transgender person's, but rather a need for education based clearly in science rather than continued ignorance.
Transgender Service Members are here and serving now. We exist in all branches and across all military specialties. We have tactical and technical proficiencies which we continue to apply. And, as the justice for the district of Columbia asserts, we are arguing for the right to serve and, if necessary die for our country.
I serve as a subject matter expert in this field. I have been to the Pentagon to speak on this matter across two administration's. I am not a member of a mafia, and contrary to LTC Martin's assertion, I, and we will not be silenced. We will not be regulated or written into the closet or out of existence. And the lack of understanding, the ignorance and the hate of individuals like yourselves, will not keep us from living, working, learning and serving for and in the country that we love.

Thank you
SSG Patricia King.

SSG Patricia King You are obviously not silenced. And my assertion is on readiness. I don’t care what color the socket wrench is as long as it does the job. Being focused on a particular wrench of a particular color or what ever categories you wish to measure is wrong. The military has one task, to fight and win our nations wars. It is not a social experiment. Not hate, cold harsh reality.

LTC (Join to see) I agree that the military is not an experiment. Nor are transgender Americans an experiment. We are simply a cross section of our amazing country. The fact 5hat we have not understood something until recently doesn't make the thing new.
I know that you will likely have any number of assertions about why trans Americans shouldn't serve. Perhaps it will be focussed on readiness or cost. I often like to use a couple of examples here. If you like I can site my work or a little Google will confirm my statements;
We heard recently how much money was being dumped into erectile dysfunction in he military by comparison to the cost of trans care. Another example would be vasectomies. With just shy of 9% of military males now getting the procedure our annual military cost is about 10million dollars (care and medication run about $1,000 a pop). That's twice the annual cost of trans care. And with each of those Service Members being non-deployable for 30 days at a minimum we are looking at nearly 300,000 man days of non readiness per year. That's a pretty big cost for our men in uniform to make sure their socket wrenches don't work anymore.
Sleep apnea in the military carries a budget of nearly 100,000,000 per year. And every Servicr member with a CPAP machine needs an outlet when they go to the field or deploy.
LTC Martin, please don't misunderstand, I am supportive of both of the above mentioned pieces of medical care, in fact I'm even supportive of giving the boys Viagra if their battle buddy is having trouble.
Providing top notch medical care to the best and brightest is the cost of having the best military in he world. We aren't robots, we are people and WE, all of us, are what makes our military great. Some of us are metric, some standard, all different sizes and doing different jobs.
But what of the mental health first our Service Members, we don't want people with dissabilities (said in scary squiggly letters) going down range. The reason why gender dysphoria was adapted from fender identity dissorder is that having a gender identity that doesn't align with your sex assigned at birth isn't a disorder. It's not a mental condition. It's most likely that it happens in utero. It's not software, and not hardware but "firmware" (the base programing that comes on the co.puter and can't be changed). We have some theories as to how that happens but what matters is it doesn't make the computer unstable or unusable. Unfortunately (or fortunately) the program called the be rewritten. So the super computer that is SSG King is best given a different case. Just as lethal but a bit prettier. And in a world where a fraction of a % qualify to serve and only some of that number want to, telling me that I can't, when 20 years of proven combat effectiveness would contradict that seems a bit premature.
We can talk unit cohesion. General Milley did when he stood in front of Congress and told them after a year of open trans service that it had presented no issues with morale, cohesion or discipline in the nations largest branch.
I can go on. And I'm happy to do so, but my goal isn't to sell you on the merits of trans service, or even of trans people. Everyone wants to be liked, it's how we are built, but not everyone is going to see things my way. Perhaps someone will read this and it will provide insight. Thanks for your time.

I apologized for the typos. Cold fingers on a cell phone screen. If anything I typed isn't decipherable please throw it in a comment and I will explain whatever my fat fingers confused.