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If said transgender has no history of being suicidal or no history of depression than be all means he/she should be able to serve like anyone else. However, I have been advised that close to 50% of transgender at one time were suicidal and higher percentage depressed. That would disqualify those people on those issues alone, disregarding the transgender part.
I think you're confusing "civil rights" with race.
I tried but I don't understand your comment, don't know what you mean. If you wanted to clarify that would be great. Anyway dashrendar4454 brought up the terms "mental illness" and "civil rights", I didn't. See posts 647 and 648.
If said transgender has no history of being suicidal or no history of depression than be all means he/she should be able to serve like anyone else. However, I have been advised that close to 50% of transgender at one time were suicidal and higher percentage depressed. That would disqualify those people on those issues alone, disregarding the transgender part.
Probably part of the suicidal feelings is not being accepted as an equal member of the society you were born and raised in.
Probably part of the suicidal feelings is not being accepted as an equal member of the society you were born and raised in.
Not true at all. It has nothing to do with society. Plenty of marginalized and hated groups in history have NOT had a higher than average suicide rate.
I tried but I don't understand your comment, don't know what you mean. If you wanted to clarify that would be great. Anyway dashrendar4454 brought up the terms "mental illness" and "civil rights", I didn't. See posts 647 and 648.
You don't seem to understand what "civil rights" means. Perhaps you could explain what this means: "I am not comparing a mental illness to civil rights. They are not similar and can't be compared. I'm drawing a causation between fear of change and making silly excuses."
People with mental illness do have civil rights, like all the rest of us.
There's been quite a bit of bickering, bullying and fighting going on. Please, stick to the topic. You do not have to answer every post. The ignore feature is there for a reason. Use it!
You don't seem to understand what "civil rights" means. Perhaps you could explain what this means: "I am not comparing a mental illness to civil rights. They are not similar and can't be compared. I'm drawing a causation between fear of change and making silly excuses."
People with mental illness do have civil rights, like all the rest of us.
Of course they do! I never said otherwise. What I said above was a reply to dashrendar who accused me of comparing mental illness to civil rights. I replied that mental illness and civil rights can't be compared so I was not comparing them. That's all.
I understand what civil rights means. Can you tell me your definition of it? Because I'm still not sure what you're saying. Maybe we have two different definitions or something.
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