I wonder where the “estimated 15,000...now serving” came from?
You would think the docs doing the physicals upon enlistment would spot the after market parts.
Probably from the same study that claimes Trans’ are twice as likely enlist and serve as the average person. That is, another bit of advocacy scholarship.
BTW, I once broke down those alleged numbers. NPR and a couple other sources I looked at put total military personnel numbers (active and reserve) at a little over 2.2 million people. 15,000 transgendered troops would mean roughly 1 trans for every 150 people, or a % rate of about 0.7%, if my math is correct. That percentage is more than twice the unsubstantiated activist claim of 0.3%, and more than 3 times higher than the “best case” statistical research of a trans-activist named Lynn Conway, who found that the at most 1 in 500, and as few as 1 in 2500, less than 10 years ago. And that’s not even looking at the somewhat older, but non-partisan, studies in Europe that found it was closer to 1 in 30,000 for men and as rare as 1 in 100,000 in women.