Transgender soldiers now know how AG Jeff Sessions feels

America’s transgender soldiers now know how Attorney General Jeff Sessions feels.

They voluntarily enlisted to serve their country, and then, out of the blue, three presidential tweets later and suddenly they’re a threat to military readiness. Thank you for your service!

Commentators defending the new no-transgender policy had to scramble, but they quickly came up with several arguments, including the problem of having to see love bits in the showers.

“This is a very problematic thing to do. And right now the guidance is that women must shower with men who retain their full male body parts if they identify as women.”

I acknowledge I have never served myself, but being that every member of our co-ed military signs up knowing they might have to camp out together in trenches while being shot at, I had just assumed they could easily defend themselves from the sight of someone’s genitalia. Especially in a military led by a defense secretary nicknamed Mad Dog.

But then again, this may be about nothing. As with the Jeff Sessions, shaming, and health care, and the wall — a tweet doesn’t mean it’s real. A lot of Trump’s tweets are a like those tests of the Emergency Broadcast System.

Had this been an actual policy it probably would have been announced first to the people who would have to explain it. Like the White House press office.

“But you can’t answer the question of what’s going to happen to transgender people who are in the military now,” one reporter asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “Shouldn’t you be able to answer that?”

“Look, I think sometimes you have to make decisions. And once he made a decision, he didn’t feel it was necessary to hold that decision…”

… Or even explain it to his own press office

Frankly, I think doing what Sara Sanders has to do is way more embarrassing than seeing someone’s genitalia in the shower.

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