Transgender People Should Be Allowed In The Military

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With new technologies, people are able to get hormone treatments to become the opposite sex that they were birth to. People who undergo treatments to switch genders and known as transgender people. Currently in America, the rights of transgenders and all members of the LGBTQ community are being debated. A major issue that is being debated is whether or not transgender people should be allowed in the military. Originally, my stance on this issue was that transgender people should be allowed into the military. However, my stance has shifted with new information I learned from the LGBTQ group’s presentation. For the reason that Transgender people will distract and add costs to the military environment, they should not be allowed to join. In

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