This reminds me, the main problem, if not the only problem I have with Gen. Mattis, is his continued support of keeping Transexual recruits in active service.
Mattis supports keeping them even when they undergo gender reassignment, meaning, for big chunks of time, the recruit is not able to serve, but the USA must still pay for all that ‘free’ surgery and hormone replacement. Not many studies have been done to discover what happens to the body and the psyche after years and years of being unnecessarily dosed with sexual hormones.
The experiment has not yet been concluded.
Gender reassignment surgery is associated with a brief respite in elevated suicide rate, followed by extreme rates.