I tried very hard not to miss this place but it's obvious some of y'all need some Trans Jesus in your life so I'm back to educate some asses.
Let me be clear: There's either a problem with the mind, or a problem with the body. Either way you classify it, I don't care. Both are reason enough to disqualify someone for the military.
Hardcore blind Nationalism should disqualify one too. Like those tests where if you do "too well" you get shitcanned. I want killers who aren't shooting people because they think the US is God On Earth.
Erectile dysfunction should disqualify someone. Low self esteem. White nationalism. Racism, sexism, blind patriotism are all mental defects. But that starts cutting into major swaths of the folk who join the military. Is the military a government job? If it is then it should operate by the rules all government jobs do. If snowflake generals are wringing their hands over trans soldiers not being badass enough, or their medication costing money while they down boner pills and suffer PTSD, that's their fucking problem.
aka Pat Tillman. "There are four types of people who join the military. For some, it's a family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next, you have those who just need a job. Than there's the kind who want a legal means of killing other people." -Jack Reacher
@BlazerCaravan Nice to see you posting again. You sound fired up! Hope all is well. I have an acquaintance that is transitioning and also posted their "coming out" describing their gender dysphoria shortly before you posted your life news in this forum. She seems very happy now. I find your thoughts on gender dysphoria interesting because while I have questions about it in processing what's going on in my acquaintance's head, I don't feel that we are good enough of friends to ask questions. Instead I just try to respect her life decisions and apologize when I catch myself using the wrong pronoun. Thank you for coming here to post your thoughts.
What about the people who don't "need a job", but see military service as a good way to get school paid for once they've done their four years?
(this is a horrible metaphor because I just ate lunch) Imagine a sandwich. One slice of bread is your Biological Sex Expression, things like you genitals, secondary sex characteristics like facial hair, breasts, etc. The filling represents your mental and emotional state: messy and gooey, or maybe neatly sliced and square. One slice of bread is your Gender Identity, the way you feel inside, the way you actually identify. Now, for 95% of people, both slices of bread are exactly the same. They're from the same loaf, adjacent slices. The filling is neatly inside both slices. If you looked from the top down at your plate, you might not even realize it was a sandwich. It'd look like a single piece of bread. For 5% of people, the two slices of bread aren't the same. They're different sizes, from different loaves. They don't match. And when they don't match, the Biological Sex Expression slice is always larger, and the Gender Identity slice is always a bit smaller. Maybe it's round too. Who knows. Now, if the top slice of the sandwich is the Biological Sex Expression, from the top down it might still look like a single slice of bread, because the other slice is hidden... but the filling is going to drip onto the plate if it's gooey (if it's neat and orderly, maybe it doesn't... some folks have it all figured out). This is a closeted trans person, or one who doesn't realize they're trans yet. But that dripping? That's what gender dysphoria is. The discomfort of knowing your slices don't match, of knowing that you're a sandwich and not a single slice of bread... ...but more than that, you realize everyone's a fucking sandwich and they think they're all single slices of bread. It's infuriating but so impossible to explain because nobody looks at anyone except from the top down, as if there was no depth to the picture. The act of coming out involves flipping the sandwich over, expressing your Gender Identity outwardly. But that Biological slice can still be seen, and so can some of the filling. Coming out exposes the difference. People can't look top down and see a single slice anymore. Often what they see is a big mess, a big slice and a little slice, and a bunch of exposed filling. What an awful sandwich! Why did they even bother flipping the sandwich over if it looks like THAT?! My god who would eat that?! But the filling isn't dripping on the plate anymore. That expression keeps the emotions in check. Hormones, surgery, all of that... it's all about slicing that Biological slice to make it fit the gender slice. And some folks, if they get treatment early enough, can cut that biological slice to match perfectly. And hey, what a beautiful slice of bread. They can't even see the sandwich. Some folks will never know there's two slices of bread there. Most of the time, the slices don't match that well, but if you dress up right and don't talk, you can make that top slice a bit bigger than the bottom slice so that if people just glance they don't see a sandwich. People need to realize everyone is a sandwich first. Then they need to feel lucky as fuck their slices match. Then they need to support folks who have different slices. Then, you can get into accepting sandwiches that aren't neatly made, so that we don't have to hack away at the bottom slice to make it match the top slice. Because even a messy sandwich can be delicious.
I had to read that a couple of times. The first time, I wasn't following. The second time, it made more sense.
Link Doesn't seem like the military is itching to drum out transgender people. They probably don't have much choice if Trump actually follows through with a detailed directive. Lacking detail, though, I imagine the military will ignore it as much as possible.
I wasn't going to pick apart this shit post, but I'm waiting on someone, so... fuck it. Everything you stated in the first paragraph, would indeed disqualify someone. So you can rest easy. As for the second clump of words you strung together there; I think we both know that not all government jobs are the same - stop grasping at straws. And any medical problem that happens after a person joins, is covered. So I'm not sure why you're upset that the military covers PTSD? Also, there are reasons that the military has an abnormally high amount of young testosterone filled 20 something year olds with ED. Not sure what that has to do with people that wanna chop their dicks off, etc. but whatever.
