Posted on Mar 23, 2018

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Cpl Tom Surdi

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Here is my opinion. I don't care if you are transgender, if you can do the job you deserve the job. However, I don't think that they should be able to make their transition while on active duty and certainly not on taxpayer dime. The transition makes you non-deployable and is an elective surgery. If you want to transition, it should be on your own dime on your own time.

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If you can't do your job then the civilian world is better suited for you. The military should never be a snowflake wonderland in which 23,000 accommodations are made for your special needs. There is one standard, meet it or become a civilian.

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MCPO Roger Collins

Posted >1 y ago

I could agree, given your constraints, but does this sound familiar?

http://www.ucmj.us/sub-chapter-10-punitive-articles/924-article-124-maiming

924. ARTICLE 124. MAIMING « UCMJ – United States Code of Military Justice

Any person subject to this chapter who, with intent to injure, disfigure, or disable, inflicts upon the person of another an injury which–

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Cpl Tom Surdi

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Read that article again, it has to do with maiming another person not yourself " inflicts upon the person of another". There is an article that pertains to maiming yourself, but that is not this article. Either way, since one of my constraints is that a person cannot transition while on active duty, this article doesn't apply. Unless they try to do it themselves to force a surgery, which is just stupid and dangerous.

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MCPO Roger Collins

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A realistic attitude.

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MSG Stan Hutchison

Posted >1 y ago

I would agree with one caveat. If a recruiter is behind on his quota and tells the individual they can get the necessary transition on the military's dime, then they should. However, I would caution the recruit to get it in writing.

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Cpl Tom Surdi

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Then the recruiter would be violating policy and should be punished accordingly.

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MSG Stan Hutchison

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Cpl Tom Surdi - I agree. But should the recruit be made to pay for the recruiter's violation?

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Cpl Tom Surdi

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That's a difficult question to answer. I want to say no, but I believe everyone should be held to the same standards without any one person being given preferential treatment because some idiot recruiter was trying to make a quota.

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