Transgender Issues In The United States

June 30th 2016, Rizzo & Cohen, (2016) with CNN wrote a piece on Defense Secertary Ash Carters’ decision to allow transgender individual to enlist, commission, and sereve openly in the U.S. Military. This order also allows hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery if medically reccomended. It is estimated that there are 15,000 transgender individuals currently serving in the U.S. military, according to a recent study by the Williams Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles Law School. The policy also states that any transgender joining the forces must have 18 months of stability in their new gender.

Every day, there are American citizens who risk their lives for the sake of their country's safety. Men and women who believe that justice, peace, and equality should be served. However, within their beliefs, some choose to exclude transgender individuals who have the same rights and freedoms. The American society considers the world to be progressively changing and growing, however, seem to forget that in order for the military to survive the 21st century, diversity is crucial. Although the medical costs may raise the overall healthcare median per year, transgender individuals should have the right to serve in the U.S. armed forces because any human being who meets the physical qualifications and has a willing attitude should have the right to serve.

I believe that Mr. Trump will have no success on banning transgenders from the military. I can understand the concerns of the financial aspects of the transgender medical related cares for members. Woman have been fighting for quality since the 1960s, to have equal rights as men, and today they have it. Equal rights mean just that, equal rights for the both male and female. Civil Rights assures equality from the government and Trump needs to remember that. Removing transgenders from the military based on their transgender is deplorable and curl. These people have families to support. I believe the federal courts will take a case against this situation and ban Trump from doing any banning

Recently, Carter attempted to eliminate the grey area by changing the Pentagon policy to allow transgender Americans to serve openly in the military, with all reassignment costs paid for by the government. The Defense Department policy states if service members’ abilities to serve are hindered by a “medical condition or treatment related to their gender identity,” they will be treated (May). This new policy requires the government to pay for expensive treatments for all transgender Americans. As a result, the number of deployable troops is decreased. The policy also encourages the large possibility of

In 2016, former president, Barack Obama lifted the ban of transgenders being in the military. Now the question comes up, should transgender be allowed in the military? This is a very “touchy” topic as when discussed in verbal debates, situations can become pretty heated. Recently, current president, Donald Trump reversed the decision and put the ban back on as he made the announcement on Twitter saying, the military does not need to be “burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgenders in the military would entail.” (Caceres). Several members of the military have voiced their opinions on why they think transgenders should be allowed in with no problem.

President Trump recently signed and transmitted a directive to the Department of Defense, which would discontinue the admittance of transgender individuals into the military. The guidance sent to the Pentagon on Friday, August 25th, 2017, also communicated the President’s desire to cut off funding from tax dollars to pay for troop’s sex changes.

They are not allowed to serve our country which is heartbreaking because the government feel like they are not fit to do so. Many states still have a ban on gay marriage until this day. Before President Obama left office he promised to help the LGBT community to gain their rights and also appeal the DADT. Our government should take more procession with their rights we have hateful people out there and would like to terminate them. In 2016 the military lifted the ban on transgender people. Which is a start I feel that it should not be a option to pick and choose who to fight for our country. Also I feel that if a person love someone no matter what color , shape , size , gender , etc you should not stop them from finding their true love.

On July 26, 2017 President Donald Trump drastically changed the lives of many American military personnel with just three short tweets on Twitter. Such is the state of America today, as one’s entire life could change overnight. On July 25, transgender Americans were openly serving to defend our nation, but on July 26, that right had been taken away in an instant. With this ban, transgender Americans not only lost their ability to serve in the military, but also lost all of their medical assistance, and further, must now face the stigma President Trump has attached to being a transgender person. Under the Obama administration, transgender persons finally felt safe to openly declare their identity, but now such a voluntary disclosure has

In recent years, we seen a change in not only about how transgender people look at themselves but how the world receives them as well. Being transgender which is also called transsexualism is qualified as a condition that is recognized as gender identity disorder. There should not be laws that stop people from expressing their belief and the way they choose to live their life. Not only does such laws go against freedom of religion and freedom of speech but it also gives way for people to use offensive language or do offensive acts to those who are transgender.

Discrimination of transgender people has been in the news more lately than it was before, society is now at a cross roads of deciding how to respond to transgender people in ways we never have had to before. One of the issues people have being able to use the bathroom they identify with most. This issue is very large, and hard to find a common ground on. The essay written by David Halperin, Is There A History In Sexuality? discusses issues in society accepting sexuality and the problems that we face in the world with it.

Everyone is assigned a gender at birth and they are expected to play the role of that gender. Everyone is expected to dress like, play like, and behave like whatever gender is assigned at birth. Humans in society today have it fixed in their brains’ that there is a specific way of living and any other way of living is wrong. So when people start to behave and dress like the gender opposite of the one given at birth, they are frowned upon and discriminated against. People fear things they do not understand and when that fear takes over, the misunderstood are treated poorly.

Upon joining the armed forces many benefits step forward, but do some of these benefits go too far? Many army recruiters come to schools and always mention the benefits. Transgender veterans or personnel need medications and maybe some surgery which cost quite a sum of money that gets passed to the government to pay (West). The government should not be paying for transition surgery or medications, due to it being the taxpayers money(West). People that are transgender should be able to pay for their own hormones and surgeries because other transgender people not in the military do so(West). In many ways too they could be disqualified for the medications and the surgery before entering the armed forces (Allen). Why should they be given special treatment for being transgender, when someone else is just as qualified and willing is dismissed for depression or some other medical need. Even with these exceptions the medications or surgery might even work in the end. Transgenders have been known to be mentally unstable before joining the military because of

Lately the topic about transgenders been going around. Have you been wondering if the “transgenders” should be banned from the military or if they should not be banned? Well Obama thought it was a good idea for transgenders to be allowed to work in the military. But now that Trump is in office he believes that transgenders should not be in the military. Well what do you think about that? Let get into it more, here are three reasons why transgenders citizens should be banned from the military are most transgenders try to attempt suicide, they military should not have people who rely on medicine, and It cost a lot of money

People in the world are arguing about whether if the government should be paying for transgender’s surgery while they are serving our country. I do believe that it isn’t a big deal about that. The reason behind my beliefs is that breast work is being paid by the government for female soldiers and spouse to have done, paying for hair transplants, and it could be beneficial for surgeons to improve on the procedure’s that comes with it. They didn’t ask to be born this way. Most transgenders do not have the type of money and benefits that they need to live their lives the way that they want to live it. They shouldn’t be punished for wanting to join the military and have the benefits to continue and improve their lives. It took a while for the homosexual to join the army legally so why not give the same chance for the transgenders.

In August of this year, President Trump passed a law to ban Transgender people from the military. The NPR released an article regarding Trump’s Transgender ban titled, Trump’s Transgender Ban in Military Will Focus On New