Plague

The mostly right wing radical US Supreme Court has allowed the Trump regime to throw transgender people out of the military on the presumption that being this way is a mental illness and therefore deters from battle readiness. They say in their written defense that "men wanting to be women is a delusion". 

This level of stupidity is not fixable. 

Firstly the concept of man and woman are heavily steeped in societal construction which means that for conservatives a butch lesbian who dresses like a man is less of a woman. The same applies to men who don't fit their prescribed guidelines for the binary. 

Secondly, the concept of how sex and gender can be decoupled doesn't compute with their world view because everything else they hold dear as black and white would fall apart as a consequence.

I would ask them the question of which scenario makes the most sense: 

1) an artificially enforced binary under which everyone must operate.

2) a naturally occurring spectrum of behavior and identification observed once we lift the imposition. 

They would pick number 1 despite nature showing us repeatedly that it abhors perfection and unanimity. For conservatism's mantra is to ignore this messy diversity. 

Are transgender people ready and able bodied? If they passed the requirements they are and out of 2.8 million service members approximately 4,000 of them are out transgender people. In other words 0.14%.

You would think this was a plague when the true plague on human beings is their abject stupidity which has a far higher percentage of occurrence.