Gender Bemding

Sometimes distinctions make common sense. President Trump's new policy of banning transgenders (just the T in LGBT) from the military has raised another imbroglio. It seems that this about-face from an Obama out-the-door policy was primarily motivated by Congress's inability to deny taxpayer payments for sex-change operations and hormone therapy for transgender service personnel.

Who has been our most recent transgender soldier? Remember? Why Bradley Manning, that's who. He was the traitor who gave over seven hundred thousand secret and sensitive documents to Wikileaks, was convicted of espionage, started sex reassignment treatments and renamed himself  Chelsea ... and spent less than four years in the brig out of his 35 year sentence ... having gotten an executive pardon during Obama's last days in office.

Maybe, with Trump's new policy tweet, this Chelsea Mamning debacle will now be a lot less likely to be repeated?

Afterward: Why did Obama find a novel and departing affinity for transgenders?