This is really just a ploy to increase the defense budget, even if by a negligible amount. Liberals seem to have a huge problem when increasing the defense budget for the purposes of eliminating despotic, misogynistic and homophobic regimes, but they don't seem to have a problem increasing the defense budget to put transgenders in front of a gun. Weird.
The minute we increase the defense budget to allow people to indulge themselves in body integrity identity disorder, they're immediately just going to start crying about how the defense budget increased this year instead of going toward their communist movement.