General Discussion

When you make a new policy based on medical readiness and deployability- what this will be based on- it takes them time to deal with the people already in after they make the decision to bar new enlistments.

They still won't retain most in, based on the issues revolving around the need for hormone therapy and how that can't be supported in a wartime deployed environment. What they will do is end up discharging most of them on medical grounds via the same process used if someone develops another medical condition that is not compatible with the demands of military service. A few that don't require and special hormone therapy, hormone monitoring or mental health care will probably be allowed to finish enlistenents or make a few last years to retirement but then won't be allowed to reenlist.

It's not unlike how they manage a lot of other things. When services have changed tatoo policies they barred new enlistees whose tattoos didn't meet the new rules but let people in whose tattoos didn't meet the rules stay but did not allow them to reenlist. I saw the Army deal with the same thing as Sleep Apnea and doctors prescribing CPAPs became more common, first you couldn't enlist if you needed a CPAP and then they started going case by case and either discharging, retiring or placing a bar to reenlistment on people who were prescribed a CPAP.