{"id":32413,"date":"2012-10-16T08:04:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T12:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32413"},"modified":"2012-10-16T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:17:56","slug":"the-times-they-are-a-changin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32413","title":{"rendered":"The Times They Are A-Changin…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I figured Jonn, or TSO at least, would have covered this.<\/p>\n

Deployed soldier begins sex change<\/a><\/p>\n

The lede:<\/p>\n

She\u2019s a lesbian, and almost everyone in her unit knows it.<\/p>\n

She wears her hair cropped short and has a distinctly boyish appearance.<\/p>\n

And she\u2019s becoming manlier by the day, now that she\u2019s started taking male hormones.<\/p>\n

Call her Keith. That\u2019s the name this 26-year-old specialist, now deployed to Afghanistan, plans to take when she completes a transition begun several months ago when she started giving herself <\/strong>testosterone injections every other week, under the direction of a civilian doctor who specializes in gender changes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He\/she is<\/strong> giving interviews except that:<\/p>\n

Keith declined to be identified by her real name because under military policy, troops diagnosed with \u201cgender identity disorder\u201d are deemed medically unfit for service and face administrative separation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now I’m 40+ years separated from my military service and I KNOW things have changed, but this strikes me as a less than positive development .<\/p>\n

We have someone knowingly breaking regulations and doing it in a very public way.\u00a0 Somehow a righteous PC armor is magically protecting this soldier it seems.<\/p>\n

And this is NO LONGER the person who enlisted. Even among males testosterone therapy has some serious psychological side effects. I can’t imagine the changes he\/she is going through, and in a war zone to boot.<\/p>\n

I could rant on about stuff like unit cohesion and\/or morale but I’ll just ask that someone here PLEASE explain how this is a good thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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