[rdcbn]

This is just the way the military works and it is also the best way to ensure that the next President does not simply overturn the ruling.

Mattis will now do a serious and exhaustive study of the ability of transgenders to deploy at peak combat efficiency and to maintain that peak efficiency when supply lines for hormone treatments are cut.

He will then rule accordingly.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

This is just the way the military works and it is also the best way to ensure that the next President does not simply overturn the ruling.

Mattis will now do a serious and exhaustive study of the ability of transgenders to deploy at peak combat efficiency and to maintain that peak efficiency when supply lines for hormone treatments are cut.

How will that prevent the next president from simply overturning the ruling? The longer the policy stays in effect, the harder it will be to ever overturn it.

[itsahoot]

Mattis will now do a serious and exhaustive study of the ability of transgenders to deploy at peak combat efficiency and to maintain that peak efficiency when supply lines for hormone treatments are cut.

D@mn straight we need to spend the money to study common sense until it makes no sense.