How would you accommodate a transgender subordinate in your unit?

I think it comes down to the individual Soldier, who they are as a person, and their station in life. I have had two Soldiers in the last few years that transitioned or were transitioning. Both were great Soldiers. There weren’t any accommodations that we made we would not have made for any other Soldier. A medical appointment is a medical appointment. One of our transitioned Soldiers was one of our top NCOs in the organization. The Army made the decision and gave the order, it’s now our job to execute the order.

It's refreshing to see the positive posts on this subject. I'm in agreement that equal physical standards for all would solve a lot of problems. After transitioning, berthing should be by gender, but I'm also in favor of co-berthing while deployed or in field training. I can't tell you how many times the females did not get the word passed, not to mention missing out on the networking, training and comeraderie with your peers while the females are in a tent with the XO down to an E-3 which was totally inappropriate...

I accidentally voted the wrong one and it won't let me change it for some reason. It should be by sex and gender. And it's not special accomodations to treat people as human beings. These comments whining about special accomodations are just bigoted. We give people glasses as an accomodations, high speed it doesn't make them special. Trans soldiers are just as valid as any other soldier.

It took a lot to come out after 20 years of being in especially with all the negativity that I see online and hear where soldiers don't think they are heard.

I never wanted special accommodations. I just wanted to be accepted for who I am as a person and a soldier. Luckily for me, everyone I served with in person has been the utmost professional and accepting of me.

I wouldn't accommodate them any more than I would any other Soldier. I came up in an Army that demanded that Soldiers conformed to It's standards but that day and time is far gone. The Army now conforms to Soldiers and IMO it's destroying the core values that the Army is built upon. As far as standards go, they should be required to adhere to the gender standards according to the gender listed on their SRB/ERB/ORB.

No special accommodation for any soldier. Carry your oun or get out. Born male, test male, born female test female, or make all follow male standard which is the hardest. If you can't suck it up buttercup, then wash out. Lives depend on your lazy ass.

Accommodate seems like a strange word. If we were out training and they had to use the can I'd let them figure it out and then Yell at them to hurry it up.

As long as the soldier can "soldier" it wouldn't matter to me if they were gay, transgender, or whatever... As a leader you do have to consider how other soldiers in your unit will handle this as well....I don't think it would be too much of a problem unless they are trying to use what/who they are to gain special favor or get out of things.

I stood side by side with human beings who stood watch over the entire Atlantic side of ALL THE FIVE BRANCHES.
They signed the same contract that everyone else does in blood and their families sacrificed just like everyone else's did, and they knew what was expected of them when they did it and they wore their uniforms with honor.
They didn't expect special treatment other than being treated with the same common courtesy, decency, and respect everyone they gave everyone else.
Dignity.
Honor.
Valor.
Integrity.
HUMANITY.
Give me an honest Transgender to serve with because it sure is better that standing guard with a rapist.

I spent a nearly a year in living in the parking garage at King Fahd International Airport during Desert Storm. The part of the year that was not at KFIA I lived in a GP Medium tent. We didn't have "Male" and "Female" facilities (and we did have female soldiers in my platoon).

Yes, there were homosexual soldiers.

Some of the female soldiers were stronger than some of the male soldiers, many of the males were stronger than all of the female soldiers. Some of the female soldiers were able to perform technical roles that (avionics) that we had no qualified males to perform.

All this to say "The only thing that matters is the ability to do the job."