getting in is not difficult. There is no GPA requirement at all (only a high school degree) and while it theoretically requires a 41 on the ASVAB, I've personally known it to be waived. A culinary specialist in my bootcamp division got in with a 26 on the ASVAB.
Does it really surprise you that someone with a slightly lower than required ASVAB got in since the ASVAB is mostly irrelevant to a culinary specialist? It's not excusable for certain, but not all that surprising given how much red tape there is.
And yes I got the link wrong unfortunately,
these are the actual requirement, and although you theoretically don't even need a high school degree, you need to score much higher on ASVAB, along with stricter overall requirements. I was definitely wrong about how difficult it is to get into the navy, at least to be enlisted. However, what I said here still applies:
I think you misunderstand. YOU are the one claiming that there will be no significant difference between all transgender people, no matter their personality, physicality, mentality, or any other trait, and transgender people who apply, and, importantly, get into the navy.
To say that it's reasonable to assume the statistics for transgendered people and transgendered people in the navy to be reasonable close would be equivalent to saying it's reasonable to assume that the statistics for non-transgender people and non-transgender people in the navy are reasonably close. (Which they're not.) No matter how easy you think it is to get in, it's still a very narrow and specific demographic;
only 0.1% of the US non-transgender population is in the US navy. You can't even assume that the
difference in percentages between the two are the same because again, transgendered and non-transgendered people are an entirely different demographic. Statistics isn't that easy. It would be great it if it was, that would make things a whole lot easier, but it's not.