The report said Department of Defense regulations designed to keep transgender people from joining or remaining in the military on the grounds of psychological and physical unfitness are based on outdated beliefs that require thousands of current service members either to leave the service or to forego the medical procedures and other changes that could align their bodies and gender identities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe determined not only that there is no compelling medical reason for the ban, but also that the ban itself is an expensive, damaging and unfair barrier to health care access for the approximately 15,450 transgender personnel who serve currently in the active, Guard and reserve components,\u201d said the commission led by Dr. Joycelyn Elders, who served as surgeon general during Bill Clinton\u2019s first term as president, and Rear Adm. Alan Steinman, a former chief health and safety director for the Coast Guard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, well, the problem I see right at the front of the whole line of problems is folks signing up for the military to get their treatment, have their “reassignment” surgery and then beating feet for the exits. You know, they do that now with their signing bonuses, so what’s to stop folks from doing the same for their turn at the scalpel?<\/p>\n
The commission argued that facilitating gender transitions \u201cwould place almost no burden on the military,\u201d adding that a relatively small number of active and reserve service members would elect to undergo transition-related surgeries and that only a fraction might suffer complications that would prevent them from serving. It estimated that 230 transgender people a year would seek such surgery at an average cost of about $30,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, well, I see a bigger cost because the military would pay for their training which would be money down a dark hole after they go AWOL, or claim they were mistreated, or whatever excuse of the day they used to get out of the remainder of their service. Yeah, I know this unnamed Commission says that it’s all about service, but that’s what they said about repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but then it became all about what people could get out of their service without actually serving.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you closet someone, you create a security risk, and we don\u2019t need another Chelsea Manning,\u201d [Retired Brigadier General Thomas Kolditz, a former Army commander and West Point professor] said, referring to the soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning who came out as transgender after being sentenced for leaking classified documents to the website WikiLeaks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, well, [insert current first name here] Manning wasn’t treasonous because he was gay or transgendered, it was because he was a scummy piece of shit, but nice try, Gen-gen, screwing the Army now that you’re out. I hope the Pentagon isn’t so stupid in this day and age that they’d attach their little red policy wagon to this band of morons led by Minnie Elders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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