Most Wednesday mornings have nothing unusual going on, it's hump day, middle of the week. Two days until the weekend. But for many transgender individuals, they woke up to something very startling on the morning of July 26. It was on this morning, that President Donald Trump fired off a bombshell of an announcement via three tweets, which explained how after consulting his "Generals and military experts", the United States Military "would not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the United States Military."

As always there are always two sides to every argument, that of which I personally have been listening to. So in this article, I will be listing the main concerns between the liberal/democratic POVs' and the more conservative/Republican POVs' by demonstrating the pros and cons of the ban.

Disclaimer: These are viewpoints from either side of the equation that are to be reviewed educationally, if you cannot handle conflict, don't be on the internet.

Here are some of the cons of the trans ban.

1. Let's be honest, it is discrimination

Call it what you will, but this is discrimination. Yes, there are standards (as there should be), like heavily obese people who cannot physically complete training should not be in the military. Someone with bipolar disorder or any other type of mental illness who relies heavily on medication and therapy and cannot function in a mentally destructive war zone should not be in the military. However, the fact is that these generals decided on this ban have taken an entire population of people and, assuming that every trans person whether complete with their transition or not, is mentally incapable of completing basic training. Thereby, banning every trans person and firing good soldiers because of something they cannot control due to a discriminatory ban is just wrong.

2. Being trans is not a mental illness and if it were, would you seriously care about it?

So when did America, (talking about Conservative POVs' mainly) start really giving a crap about a citizens' mental well-being? Because here's the thing, mental illness is everywhere. It is in people in the worse situations such as, the homeless, starving individuals, addicts, veterans, victims of bullying and trauma to the people who have a pretty okay life, but still suffer, like college students, high school students, people in their 40's. I could list every group label of a person in the United States because mental illness doesn't pick someone based on whether or not they can afford an iPhone. It is everywhere and the statistics are everywhere. You hear people tell you statistics on the percentage of people affected by it, yet you roll your eyes almost every time. You tell people who suffer to "grow up" and "get over it" and then you're shocked by their sudden decision to end it all due to lack of support and spread pity messages all of their Facebook wall. So how dare you start throwing around this statistic:

"There's a 61% suicide rate among the trans community."

What? Gee, I wonder if that fact has anything to do with the daily discrimination and hate many trans people have to put up with because you can't handle Ben becoming a Barbara. Because the thing is, you don't care about the people affected by that statistic or any other mental illness/transgender related statistic. You're just using these very important statements to your political advantage and honestly, I'm very disgusted in the militants who keep throwing it around in this fashion.

3. There are other jobs in the army other than combat

Unless you haven't seen the 50 million commercials the navy, military, army, air force etc. put on TV about the thousands of jobs they have other than combat, but if not here's one:

And another one:

My point is, why ban someone from a job that they succeed in? A job that avoids all that stuff about transgendered people not belonging in combat.

4. Let's be real, Trump isn't exactly the best person to issue this

Two things I will put out here:

A) Trump is very discriminatory, known for his derogatory, racist, sexist attitude. He has made discriminatory statements in the past and as someone who swore to protect people in the LGBT community (T- as in transgender people) and so far he hasn't done anything to protect them. And,

B) Honestly, releasing a ban like this with such a huge impact on many people via Twitter, is so disrespectful.

Imagine if Trump was supposed to address a crowd and instead made a 9/11 speech via Twitter characters, would you be mad that he didn't put any effort into trying to present himself? Hell yeah, anyone would expect you to be. It demonstrates a complete disregard for anyone currently transgender and in the military.

Now as always, I like to listen to the other side of the story and some good points have been made:

1. War is War

This is something that I did know of, and I didn't really understand until I watched videos and read some statuses of people arguing from the other end of the spectrum. The thing is, when the military ships their soldiers off to a war zone, they are only able to bring the most vital necessities, i.e. MREs, water, first aid, communication gear, weapons and clothing, but not medication. The concern here is that if a transgender person is reliant on hormonal pills, or any other medications, receiving those meds may be difficult depending on where a person is located, and the military doesn't want to be responsible for that, which is fair.

2. Naturally, there must be a standard to go by and if you are dependent on medication and therapies, you are not just not fit for war.

The military is strict. If you have any allergies, if you need to use an inhaler for any reason, if you're not a morning person - all of these can factor into whether or not a person would be a good candidate for battle. Therefore, it is understandable why many people may question that someone who may require hormonal medication, therapy, or surgery being allowed to enter combat when someone like me who has never seen the early A.M., wouldn't be allowed to join. Questions are a great way to get answers, but you have to listen to those answers before assuming anything.

There are a lot of other good points to be made in association with either side of this argument. I didn't cover anything about tax dollars & Viagra, or gender dysmorphia for my own reasons.

So what do you think about the Transgender ban? Was it right to ban every transgender individual from the military?

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