There has been a lot of mass hysteria from the Left over President Trump’s decision on Tuesday to reinstate the ban on transgender individuals serving in the military. Naturally, such emotion-driven hysteria has produced a lot of myths about the effects of this ban.
Here are six myths about transgender individuals serving in the military.
1. You have a right to serve in the military. As David French points out, the driving fallacy behind this belief is that serving in the military is the equivalent of “private employment” and “individual empowerment.” It’s not:
The military is different. You’re trying to forge men into a team, place them into the most stressful situations humanity has ever seen, and get them to perform under pressure. Oh, and in total war you need numbers. Lots of numbers — but without fracturing unit cohesion, coddling weakness, or taking on unacceptable risks.
So, here’s what you do — you make group decisions. Do people with certain kinds of criminal backgrounds tend to be more trouble than they’re worth? They’re out. How about folks with medical conditions that have a tendency to flare up in the field. They’re out also. It’s foolish to create a force that contains numbers of people who are disproportionately likely to have substantial problems. Increased injuries lead to manpower shortages in the field. Prolonged absences create training gaps. Physical weakness leads to poor performance.
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source: http://www.dailywire.com/news/19062/7-myths-about-transgender-people-military-aaron-bandler#
