The question we're going to ask today is what is the purpose of a military?

What is a military here to do? Here in the United States of America, I guess in many

ways you would say, well, they need to be ready to defend us against enemies both

foreign and domestic they should be fighting ready for whatever you know is happening

now there's a lot of reasons that people decide to join the

military and I would guess at the heart of it's not always so that they can rush

into battle a war but a lot of times they lack options they lack options to potentially go to university and in order to do that to come

from where they're at they see there's an opportunity that if they join the military

then they will have the option to perhaps go to college and move on to

other things with the rest of their lives. But what if you met someone that said,

you know why I'm joining the military, I want to get a breast augmentation surgery. You'd be like, ah, don't think that's why you would join the military, probably not a good idea, or like a facelift. And we could even say that, you know, I've had friends like, I just want to get in better shape, I want to work out, and therefore I think the military would do.

Well, it would certainly do that, but don't you think after a couple of years, now that you're all ripped, you'd be like, but what are all the other reasons we're here?

What if you were going to join the military to get a sex change operation?

The Department of Defense is estimated to be one of the country's biggest employers of trans people. Staff Sergeant William Allen Roles is one of over 15,000 transgender people believed to be serving in the United States military.

Our doctors will treat them and give them medically necessary treatment according to the protocols.

They provide a path for those in service for medical treatment, gender transition and recognition in one's

self-identified gender, and they seek to protect the privacy of all service members and to treat them with

dignity and respect at all times.

Outside the military, we are doing everything we can to try and get rid of all the barriers

and gatekeeping that has occurred in trans health and I feel like in the military it's we still have those same barriers requiring a brigade commander to approve my medical treatment plan.

Transitioning has allowed me to be better as a leader.

I've gotten rid of the distraction of worrying about concealing whoever it was.

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