‘No medically valid reason’ to ban trans troops, American Medical Association says.

“There is no medically valid reason — including a diagnosis of gender dysphoria — to exclude transgender individuals from military service,” American Medical Association CEO Dr. James Madara wrote in a letter addressed to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

The letter, sent Tuesday on behalf of “physician and medical student members” of the AMA, the nation’s largest association of physicians, comes less than two weeks after the Trump administration…