The internet and Twitter are in an uproar today, after Donald trump announced through a series of tweets he has banned transgender people from being accepted in the military for the “burden” they place with the “tremendous medical costs and disruptions” they make.

The left is outraged with the top trending hashtag #TransRightsAreHumanRights . Besides the facts that joining the military isn’t a human right, the left seems to also deny the face that gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition.

The argument from the left is that transgendered people have a right to serve in the military, shouldn’t face discrimination based on their gender identity, and that it’s bigoted and hateful to discriminate against someone because what gender they chose to identify as.

And that argument sounds great at face value. It sounds great until you dig into the facts around gender dysphoria. There’s reaserch showing 41% of transgendered people attempt suicide, and other research showing almost 40% attempt suicide three or more times in their lifetime.

Transgendered people have a staggering rate of anxiety with 55% having social anxiety. A 2015 Harvard study found that 50.6% of the trangendered participants had depression. And another study shows that trans people are 4 times more likely to develop eating disorders than cis gendered people.

The evidence is clear that gender dysphoria is and extremely serious health issues. And the argument that trans people should be allowed to serve in the military because its politically incorrect not to let them is ludicrous.

Transgendered veterans have a higher rate of mental health problems that normal veterans, and have a significantly higher rate of suicide that normal veterans. The stresses of military life seem to negatively affect transgendered veterans more than cis gendered service men and women. And the reason is obvious; transgendered veterans are allowed into the military with a preexisting mental disorder.

How can you expect someone with a serious mental illness to go through the gauntlet of military life and expect them to come out ok on the other end?

The military is strict with is acceptance, in terms of physical and mental health to begin with. Attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, stuttering, bipolar, and past suicidal behavior are all disqualifying conditions. The accompanying symptoms of gender dsyphoia (depression, suicide, anxiety) are all means to disqualify trans applicants at their medical screening.

The argument that not all trans people have depression and anxiety is invalid. The same can be said for people with bipolar disorder, past histories of depression and anxiety who no longer have it, and people with past suicide attempts, but are no longer suicidal, that they don’t have depression and anxiety currently and should be allowed to enlist. The very fact that they have or have had a mental illness is the disqualifying factor.

And this doesn’t even get into the fact that the military as Trump pointed out in its tweet, is paying for their medication to treat their preexisting conditions that come along with them being transgender. Not to mention the inconveniencing of the military to accommodate them based on their gender pronoun and what bathroom they get to use. Overall, the military is better off without trans people, and Donald Trump did the tough, but right thing banning transgendered people from joining the military.