Transgender Service Members: Serving in Silence

Funny question in a way, if they are being discreet seems like there is no real problem, Personal time of their own is their time. Now if I am out in the park and it is a holiday and the rainbow people are also out celebrating and low and behold their is my colonel dressed to the nines. well nay be a problem. Quick true story, NJ circa 1977 I am living in an apartment in Piscataway NJ my upstairs neighbor is a nice guy, one day he is in his dress greens, he is a colonel in the NG or Reserve. Wow who knew, then It seems he has male friends over no female, and then of all things cops come to my house asking if I know anything about him, no, not really, why? well he was murdered, but the crazy sounds you heard were because he was in the last stages of VD. Now service people, than man knew how to keep a secret!

Why do people need to be loud and proud? No matter what, people are going to be judgmental, people are going to discriminate, and why give them those chances? Only time I need to know is when you have abdominal pain and I need to work you up with a uterus or do a straight cath (kits are longer in males). I do not care who you sleep with, what clothes make you feel whole, but I do take issue that you feel I need to know and accept your personal life. Love who you want to love, I will do the same, and everything will be lovely.

I don’t give a shit what you are when the fighting starts your butt better be right there with me defending that line you punk out I might just give you to the enemy.

The services by right ought to and justifiably do discriminate. Too fat, too thin, too short, too tall, education not up to snuff, legal issues, member of a gang, etc. I think the services should be very slow to change and careful about how that happens. There are more ways to serve than in the military.

Not fair! I served in silence for 23 years!

Whew. This will hurt. I am, of course, from the old school before single moms turned their boys into confused Ken dolls. How is a kid that hears constantly how men are shit, your dad is an a-hole supposed to act. If a boy does not know what a pee pee is for at 20 and a girl cannot figure which end babies come from, HOW for the love of life can you trust them with a weapon and the training to use it quite effectively. Give them free tuition and send them to Portland/Seattle/Minneapolis to college where they will make them/it a celebrity. Sorry if my reply pisses you off but PC culture is destroying America. Diversity is 50 states, all different all together. Not little clans fighting over issues. Melting pot, remember. I know I am a sarcastic f.

Oh boy, let me take a stroll through this mine field
In my opinion, here's the real issue. Let's just imagine our would be "patriot" is actually a would be transgender who has it all figured out.
Step one, join the military for 4 years

Step two, after basic training, said soldier starts the process of being diagnosed so they can seek tax payer funded gender reassignment. This will likely be a long process of medical appointments that will put the soldier on a limited duty profile

Step three tax payer funded (Tricare) sexual reassignment surgery. Again a lengthy period of limited duty profile

Step 4 about the time their profile clears they ETS likely having never performed in their MOS in any meaningful way.

Both my grandfather's were ministers, I was a Presbyterian Elder, I was raised in a socially conservative home. The Army, however, is not the priesthood, a religious organization or a social club. It is an organization devoted to the business of killing foreign military personnel and enemy combatants intent on turning the world into a totalitarian state (pick your choice from the extreme right to the extreme left). Who cares what gender a service member is or wants to be? That has nothing to do with the business at hand. What should matter is whether a soldier can do their assigned job well and treat others decently to maintain unit cohesion (this latter point seems to have escaped some of our colleagues in their posts, who try to conceal their personal prejudices under the cloak of "good order and discipline.") If you didn't know someone was transgender, they were hauling the SAW around all day, and they took care of business when in contact with the enemy, would you really care? If you would, then perhaps you might prefer switching to fighting for the Taliban, who would welcome your commitment to ideological purity. Just my two cents.

As a straight member I also served in silence....figure it was know ones bussines.

The military is here to defend the country now be subject to the social justice non-sense.