Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was repealed a year ago on September 20, and none of the dire, apocalyptic, the sky is falling warnings have occurred...

.Providing the same right to serve in the military to transgender persons would have the same “no overall negative impact,” as would repeal of DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act] and passage of ENDA [Employment Non-Discrimination Act] in society as a whole. No doubt there will still be those insisting the sky is falling, or will be any second now, but we still have people doing that related to race and gender.