Your mistake, and the major pitfall of most arguments you guys make, is you're operating off of moral outrage. No one is getting kicked out "For their gender identity", that's stupid, stop saying that. Like honestly, it's getting ridiculous. I said if you require meds to be constantly delivered to you, you shouldn't be in the military. If your gender identity doesn't require constant medication, then obviously that doesn't apply. But because the definition of Transgender has been so utterly ruined by people who wanna play pretend with their sense of self, we know equate people who simply state they are not the gender they say they are with people who transition to a different gender, which is dumb.
the simplest and most concise definition i can think of is that if your expressed gender identity is different from your assigned one, you're trans. you may not be undergoing HRT or surgical treatments and you may not even want to.
i'm still confused about the whole medication idea for anything other than combat roles tho, cus for any job that a civilian might do it wouldn't be a factor at all, and i'm not sure why military-employed positions of those same roles would be different. for combat roles i think the
existing guidelines are strict enough and already exclude anyone with potentially distracting or impairing psychological conditions (might even be too strict imo but that's a diff discussion)
The causes for rejection for appointment, enlistment, and induction are a history of such disorders resulting in any or all of the below:
a. Admission to a hospital or residential facility.
b. Care by a physician or other mental health professional for more than 6 months.
c. Symptoms or behavior of a repeated nature that impaired social, school, or work efficiency.
b. is the main one to look at here, that pretty much annihilates a large portion of people who've sought professional care for mental illness, which is necessary if you want to undergo HRT or reassignment/top surgery above board
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