The problem is that the ship has already sailed.
It’s one thing to never allow them in the first place, and another to disrupt the status quo once it has already happened, and I suspect Mattis’ motivation is not to disrupt the status quo, although I highly doubt he would have allowed transgenders, if the policy wasn’t already in place.
Which is why you have to nip things in the bud, because once liberals get their way, it’s very difficult to undo.
That was the easy part...
No, no you see first we give them six months to study it then they go job shopping to shut you down, then you can say, oh well the courts have ruled. Or at least that is how Terri said it worked.
ditto gun control - once they concede in cracking the door, they will go into a full court press to continue edging the door open, one bit at a time until the 2nd Amendment is dead.