Your question strikes at the very heart of the matter, my FRiend.
Transgenderism reflects people with a definite mental disorder/illness.
How can they expect troops to salute and respect people like that? They have no respect for themselves going out in public like that.
THe former chief psychiatrist of John Hopkins wrote an editorial in the WSJ regarding transgender people as having a mental disorder, pure and simple. They need help, not encouragement by the military in their delusion.