Here’s your (oddly progressive) DOD guidance:
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I just culled a huge swath of this post. Victim blaming Trans individuals as being unable to serve is not appropriate. They were already serving, so they had already met the requirements.
Perhaps the situation would be different if military commanders, instead of politicians, had requested this change, but afaik this was not the case, aside from some retroactive justification now taking place.
Thanks.
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Well to pick a nit, in the US, the POTUS is the Commander in Chief of the military.
By the way, just to follow up – I talked to an ex-Marine friend of mine who laughed and produced a large bottle of Viagra. He said that ever since he retired from active duty, he gets sent Viagra, without having ever asked for it; the government literally sends veterans tons of the stuff. Basically the assumption is that PTSD gives lots of vets erectile dysfunction, but men don’t talk about their lack of boners to their doctor, so the government sends them Viagra just in case. So it’s not so much for active duty members, it’s to keep our vets erect.
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yes, very much so.
and in the context of 45 making a declaration on a basis of “military readiness” it is a mostly irrelevant one as well.
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A draft dodger that hasn’t served a day in his life who has basically delegated all aspects of military operation to SecDef (no doubt do he doesn’t get more blood on his hands after the Yemen shit show).
Now he chimes in to make a stand about troop cohesion and military readiness?
Color me completely unconvinced this is anything more than an intentional misdirection.
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@navarro @ficuswhisperer I wasn’t commenting on the situation, which surely is political with the POTUS, just pointing out a structural reality.
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you phrased it more accurately the first time.
I can see a restriction for those that are on HRT to be barred from front line service. The logic of that putting a potential imposition based on medical needs’ makes sense. It might not be FACTUALLY CORRECT, but I can see a logic there. However logistics, supply, stateside service? All viable ways one could serve. This is just Trump pandering to the xenaphobic fucktards.
Frankly I’m wondering why the hell these ‘christians’ are so against gays transgendered minorities serving. You’d think they’d be all for these groups getting shot at so they don’t have to be.
If she runs him over with a Bren carrier on his state visit, I shall become a fanatical royalist on the spot.
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