71% of 17-24 year-olds are ineligible to serve.
Recruitment is down.
The number of transgender people who want to serve has to be vanishingly small-- so small that any conceivable impact they will have is statistically insignificant.
To be picking nits about gender identity among willing and qualified potential recruits makes the whole thing performative.
They do not care one bit about the actual military-- they care about exerting theocratic power.
The fact that this issue has now been thrown at the wall four(?) times since 45's inauguration is unconscionable.
It's terrorism. They are singling out a very small, very vulnerable population for periodic ritual public menacing just to show that they can-- just to wink at theocrats and remind them Pence is pulling for them.