He only wants to serve: Transgender and ready to enlist in the military

SSG (Join to see) - I think you missed the entire point of my initial comment, that joining the military is not a right but a privilege. Weight and drug use is showing not all can join which again was my point, not that I meant they were minority issues. There are many reasons people are not allowed to join and again just because women were not officially allowed to join does not mean that they did not serve or join, just as for the past 20+ years transgendered individuals have not been allowed to join but some have and they kept it to themselves. So again, what did I state that was not accurate? "When the military was segregated minorities and women were allowed to serve." Were women and minorities not in the military when it was segregated in the first half of the 20th century?

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SSG (Join to see) - My post has nothing to do with whether or not transgendered individuals should be allowed to serve, just that serving is not a right. All that matters is two questions:
1) Will transgenders serving improve military readiness? If yes let them in. If no, go to second questions.
2) Will allowing transgenders to serve degrade the military's ability to perform its mission? If yes, they should not serve. If no then who cares if they do.
As far as women serving during segregation? Each branch had different policies on integration until early 20th century, right around the time that women were allowed to serve so my statement that women were allowed to serve while the military was segregated was not false if you know the complete history of the military, not just the Army. The Army mostly kept African Americans out of it until from the end of the Revolution to the middle of the Civil War but the Navy and Coast Guard did not have a segregation policy during that time period. The Marine Corps resisted African Americans joining from the end of the Revolution until WWII when they were forced to accept them by Presidential order. So the time period of segregation of the entire military (not just the Army or Marine Corps), which is the first half of the 20th century, women were allowed to serve.

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We can all agree that we want the military to be efficient and be able to do its job, winning nation's wars, I hope.

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You tell me