T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
Transgenderism is a mental illness. The best indicator of that is that transgenders have a nearly 50% suicide rate (look it up). That is higher than you find in political prison camps, concentration camps, among prisoners in the worst prisons on the planet, so you can't chalk it up to some sort of repression or phobia by the public.In that era you could not be openly gay and be in the military. So transgenderism was not even on the table at that time. It was considered a mental illness as was homosexuality.
But you knew that right?
Unless you think suicide is somehow normal and sane, transgenders obviously have mental illness issues they need to deal with.