What Trump did was ban all transgenders from serving in the military, which was not only idiotic from a readiness and retention standpoint (and why General Joseph F. Dunford of the Joint Chiefs of Staff basically told Trump to get lost), but was totally unnecessary if all he wanted was to stop medical payments for gender assignment surgery. Stopping medical payments could have been done with a simple targeted directive, covering no other issues. But our short-attention-span president is a thoughtless, arrogant, narcissistic fool, so we should not be too surprised when he pulls a stunt like this.

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