Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon offers a report that should disturb anyone interested in a well-trained, well-equipped American military.

The United States Army’s training for how to handle transgender issues instructs troops not to gossip about male soldiers who identify as female.

The hour-long mandatory training is being issued in response to the Obama administration’s directive to integrate transgender soldiers into the military. Last week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis delayed the Obama policy by six months.

The Army is still moving forward with its transgender training, which is conducted in the morning in place of physical training, the Federalist reported. …

… The military encourages service members to engage in “real life experience” activities during their transition process.

Real life experience, or RLE, is defined by the Army as the “phase in the gender transition process when the individual commences living socially in the gender role consistent with their preferred gender.” RLE will “generally occur in an off-duty status and away from the Soldier’s place of duty prior to the change of the gender marker in [the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System] DEERS.”

The Pentagon uses the example of a male soldier, who has not yet had a sex change, wearing wigs and dressing in female clothes off-duty to complete their RLE.