Gender Status Doesn’t Distract the Military. Hiding Who You Are Does

On July 26, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to ban transgender people from serving “in any capacity in the U.S. Military.” He tweeted, "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail." As a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army, I agree with the President that our military needs to be focused on victory.