Ordacleaphobia
Shameless Contrarian
The categorizing of gender dyphoria as a mental illness is a whole 'nother conversation...but as long as it is the case, is there still no non-combat roles that could be effectively performed by someone with this "condition" (as it were)? Are there no millitary-employed mess-hall staff? Mailroom employees? Translators? Data analysts? I kinda fall into a similar line of thinking with "gay marriage", where there should be no legal limitations for legal marriage between two people, but then individual churches can still also have their own ceremonies according to their own beliefs. But at the same time, I do realize that it's a slippery slope to "separate but equal" *shivers*.
It's tricky man, because the classification of 'mental illness' technically puts in the same bucket as something like schizophrenia.
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who would argue the two are comparable, but technically, they're both a 'mental illness' on the books. If someone's got something that makes them mentally unstable and you stick them in the mess hall, who has to handle it when they pull a knife from the chopping block and start waving it around?
It's the rule or the classification, and I'm pretty in favor of playing it safe with the rule. That leaves the classification, and...while I can see the medical intent in classifying it as a mental illness, in practice, I don't think that's productive. I would opt for an exemption for that specific condition, were it up to me.
But, you know...clown world.