Don't Ask Don't Tell isn't about GLB"T" people

Don't Ask Don't Tell is the big hubbub right now. I hate that it is, because I am anti-war. I have yet to hear of any mass violence of war that was necessary (WWII wasn't necessary, it is a sign of the complete failure of humanity to step up far sooner, even the Civil War would have likely been unnecessary if the North would have stopped passively benefiting from the existence of slavery).
It is true I don't believe in discrimination in the armed services - but DADT is only one of many places where discrimination exists. If we're serious about ending discrimination, all young women from 18-25 (or whatever the age range is) to register for the draft like their male counter-parts.
But those are tangents. Because my big irritation right now is when people universally claim that DADT ends discrimination against LGBT people in the military. Even more irritated when they spell out the acronym and don't actually think about "Trans." DADT is a an on homosexual behavior. It's not a ban on Transgender identity. It's actually unclear if someone who is trans but is attracted to someone of the opposite sex would be able to be kicked out of the armed services. No granted there are a minefield of questions. What if someone is post-op, but lives in a state that won't allow them to change their gender identity. What sex would their sex be for purposes of the DADT policy? Could two bodied men be getting it on and not violate DADT if legally they're of different genders? What if they're both in the military? Could the one who is a bio boy get kicked out under DADT if he didn't know his partner was legally female?

I honestly don't know whether transfolks are allowed to serve. My first thought was of course, but then, it occurred to me that you have to be diagnosed with a mental illness to be allowed to do surgery/transition legally in some places. Could the DSMIV diagnosis interrupt a person's ability to serve? And what about intersex people? How many intersex people are in the armed service and does being intersex interfer with someone's ability to serve (i.e., can medical professionals or anyone else know about their identity without getting kicked out).

Let's also not forget the wide spectrum of what it means to be trans. Above I used the term post-op as if that has a singular definition. But it doesn't there are many different surgeries someone can have in the process of altering their biological body to match their identified bodied. For a wide range of reasons, people transition may or may not employ a broad spectrum of methods to "transition." The issues the military would have to deal with to create an environment conducive to the existence of Trans folks is far beyond a simple policy change.

My point is that when we too readily lump ourselves into the LGBTQI community without recognizing that what makes us each individual letter widely impacts our personal experiences and the way the laws and discriminatory policies impact us.