But they haven't been able to get "gender reorientation" surgeries and other super wasteful and expensive elective crap done on the taxpayers dollar via military facilities/healthcare funds.
Allowing them to serve as they want would draw hordes of them in for the free medical and with no thought of actually serving their country.
With certainty that would be so......rather like career criminals who purposely commit crimes that will keep them in jail over the winter months for free room and board. Then in the summer months live on the streets.