U.S. Set to Lift Ban on Openly Transgender Troops

Renae said:

****ing disaster this is.

Look, I'm trans, I'm a Vet. You have no business transitioning while active duty.

Why?

Hmm, let's see, hormones. Just start there. Are you going to deploy someone who might need special medication? We don't do that for many other conditions, why the exception here? You require special oversight, are you going to provide that to deployed troops? Or are you going to say "Not going to deploy you, you're transitioning!" That's a non-starter. Very much against this, sorry my fellow Trans warriors, you wanna transition, GET OUT first.

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You also would have to consider what standards would the trans person fall under as well. Just to put a fly in the ointment though....

We kinda already have something like this issue in the military. It's called pregnancy, that seems to increase in rates as deployments come up or I even lost a team member, while on an actual deployment, because she got pregnant (supposedly while on mid-tour leave but I'm skeptical). So, right there, you have exemptions so what we are talking about now are timelines. How long does it take to transition? And, to be even more devil's advocate, actively transitioning trans people would be a significantly lower impact on the force as the numbers would be way lower than pregnancy rates.

So I'm more of a which PT standards do you use and such in wondering how it would be addressed, though your point is also valid.

Moot said:

She's still considered a soldier in the military.. even while in jail.. She broke the glass ceiling and became the first transgender to demand the military recognize her identity as female.....and they did.

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Only while in jail. She won't ever actually serve again.

Moot said:

Where? In your last post when you shouted....PERIOD.... as if that was the end of the debate.

Do you understand how insurance pools work? Do you understand that your money goes into a pool of money that other people have paid into...which means that it's not all your money? And when you get sick and make a claim that it is other peoples money that pays your medical bills because unless you are billionaire you could never afford to pay for it all by yourself without going bankrupt and losing your home and all your worldly possessions? So you, my dear Henrin,...are just as dependent on other peoples money to pay your medical bills as the people you're trying to de-marginalize and dehumanize. EXCLAMATION MARK. lol

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You understand the difference between a privately purchased insurance pool and publicly funded programs, right?

But which bathrooms will they use?