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There are lots of illnesses and conditions that disqualify people from being able to join the military, and many of those also would get a current service member medically discharged. Anything that requires daily medication to function is almost always a disqualifier. I was under the impression transgendered individuals, once they start taking them, actually require hormones to function normally. Just based on that alone, no, I don't they should.
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But gender dysphoria is a serious mental illness, it has nothing to do with taking hormones. They cannot be physically cured because it is a mental disorder. You can believe you are a car, wearing tires on your arms is not going to help you at all.
Yes, I think they should be able to join. Granted, while I understand some of the concerns about daily medications and the impact that could have on combat readiness (i.e. those hormones aren't guaranteed in a war zone), the simple fact is that many military jobs will not take you anywhere near a war zone. But I have transgender service members under me now. They do their jobs just like everyone else.
Absolutely not. Not for combat roles. The purpose of the military is to defend the country. I don't want mentally confused people doing that job. There are a million occupations for TGs. We want our biggest, baddest, toughest MEN doing this job. I really don't even want women in combat roles. It's a male job and it should be done by men who have no confusion or dissonance with regard to the immutable reality of the gender they were BORN with.
Perhaps in distant support roles far from combat there can be a use for them where their mental state is not a distraction to others.
The combat wing of the military should not be a social engineering experiment or a demonstration of tolerance. It's too important a job. I don't want tolerance in the military. I want intolerance and discrimination. Big, bad, tough guys. Nobody else.
Yes, I think they should be able to join. Granted, while I understand some of the concerns about daily medications and the impact that could have on combat readiness (i.e. those hormones aren't guaranteed in a war zone), the simple fact is that many military jobs will not take you anywhere near a war zone. But I have transgender service members under me now. They do their jobs just like everyone else.
Every service member should be capable of going into the combat zone, the line between the combat zone and the rear echelon is much fuzzier than it used to be. Honestly, any service member that can not be deployed for any three out of five years for any reason should be discharged. When a unit's strength is discussed there shouldn't have to be with an asterisk adding but only 45-57% are deployable, which happened with quite a few of the combat service support units tapped for Bosnia. None of those type of units were over 70% deployable when the first orders came out. Service in the military is not about the right to a job but the responsibility to defend this nation or it's interests.
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Every service member should be capable of going into the combat zone, the line between the combat zone and the rear echelon is much fuzzier than it used to be. Honestly, any service member that can not be deployed for any three out of five years for any reason should be discharged. When a unit's strength is discussed there shouldn't have to be with an asterisk adding but only 45-57% are deployable, which happened with quite a few of the combat service support units tapped for Bosnia. None of those type of units were over 70% deployable when the first orders came out. Service in the military is not about the right to a job but the responsibility to defend this nation or it's interests.
You are aware that even many all male combat arms units regularly deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with well over 30-40% undeployable for a variety of reasons right? No military unit in the history of mankind has ever deployed at 100% strength.
A Marine friend of mine was in an infantry company that had to leave behind the equivalent of an entire platoon when they deployed to Iraq. They had to use reservists and guys right out of boot to fill the open slots.
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