I'm okay with people being whoever they feel they need to be, but gender dysphoria is a mental disorder and mental disorders can disqualify you from military service. This seems like a no-brainer to me.
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I'm okay with people being whoever they feel they need to be, but gender dysphoria is a mental disorder and mental disorders can disqualify you from military service. This seems like a no-brainer to me.
I think the left saw the military as a great way to publicly fund a lot of dick-ectomies. Sign-up, declare, steal a bunch of diplomatic cables, get your junk snipped, and you are out. Or roughly in that order.
Where I think this is overall important is that the issue is that the focus isn't on individual snowflakes, but on force readiness. If it comes into an individual rights kind of argument, that isn't a winning battlefield. It needs to be that trans is a such a small fraction of the population that it doesn't make sense to sacrifice effectiveness. In a military sense you can make arguments like this because it isn't like the rest of society. It also isn't like the race or gender issue where you are taking out half or a large percentage of the population.
Oddly, trans people are about as common as unicorns, but at the same time they are getting their horns snipped.
Why the hell is having the bathroom match the plumbing such an issue with people?
I can agree.
While I do hope there will be some sort of provision in place to allow those who have successfully "transitioned" to enlist and attend, I have mentioned before that I am not one, in any capacity, to determine what dictates effectiveness within any military organization.
I agreed previously that I did not like the idea of footing the bill in tax dollars for individuals who should be responsible for their change; glad to see that will be avoided. But, at the same time, I do hope that there will be some sort of common ground that can be met rather than "In No Capacity.".
Either way, a lot of the concerns that had been discussed previously are now moot points. In the interim at least.
Good, about time someone put a stop to the insanity.
And.....here comes the ramp-up in impeachment efforts.
"Boo-hoo that mean ol' Trumpy tried to ban muslims, and deport all the mexicans, now he's trying turn our military into a killing machine full of straight white males, instead of the diverse and accepting bringer of democracy it's supposed to be. Let's get 'im!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S97kgzfHd0
If they serve post gender change, survive the training and do their job, no chits given by me. However, there's no reason the US tax payer should pay for GRS and ongoing costs of it, so policy could be something like they must be 2 years post op to join and medically stable, pass psych evals, etc.
Yup, will be a lefty estrogen explosion over this.
What kind of meds do post ops need and on how regular of a basis? How does that compare to other medical conditions and serving?
Shepherd Smith doesn't seem to like the idea.... says that there are thousands and thousands of trans people in the Military. He's getting pretty snitty about it.