(01-25-2021, 11:43 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(01-25-2021, 11:06 PM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote: Does this only apply to people that have gone through the actual surgical procedure to become the other gender, or does it also apply to people that are just identifying as that gender?

Not to mention some transgendered are still hetero. Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner said he/she was not drawn to men. 

Is this a crazy road we really need to travel with the military? It's all so god damned confusing and unnecessary. The subject itself is the personification of confusion.

Jenner is a lesbian.

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(01-26-2021, 12:53 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(01-25-2021, 10:44 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: I'm wondering how the military is going to deal with transgenders. Especially when it comes to physical fitness standards and living quarters.

Ship's berthing spaces are very close quarter. If a woman wanting to be a man wants to sleep in there, most guys aren't going to care. 'Here, this is what the equipment looks like.'

Women's berthing spaces, on the other hand, are a completely different story. Most of the females will not want a man amongst them in the most private space on the ship. I don't care how swishy they walk or how much estrogen they're mainlining, women will not tolerate it.

I foresee 'Other' berthing spaces being created to accommodate them.

There is no way in hell the majority of women in the military will be okay with this. I can't speak for the guys. 

As a whole this can disrupt operational security, situational awareness and a whole host of other things that are necessary for the military to run. It's inefficient as hell and it has its problems for sure, but to introduce this sort of distraction just creates another problem that has to be overseen and dealt with. 

The military has already largely been neutered when it comes to how cadre are allowed to train recruits. Bringing all this PC bull feces into it is 100% "ate up like a soup sandwich" as we used to say.

I have several 30ish military women in my family who are all applauding this move. 

Frankly this whole issue is because war is a LOT less Hell than it used to be. Put these people on Guadalcanal in 1942 or at Shiloh in 1862 and they'd be begging to go home. In fact, much of our societal unrest right now is because life is so much easier today than even 50 years ago.

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