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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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MAJ Robert Berry - do you have a family? Are any EFMP? Have you ever had soldiers with EFMP dependents? Have you ever had a circumstance come up you had to make accommodations for a soldier due to emergency? Are they "snowflakes?"
The military isn't really making accommodations for transgender people based on the training I have seen. IN fact, a soldier's doctor could disapprove of the transition and then the soldier couldn't do it on active duty.
There are more accommodations made for so many other things than are made for this topic.
The military isn't really making accommodations for transgender people based on the training I have seen. IN fact, a soldier's doctor could disapprove of the transition and then the soldier couldn't do it on active duty.
There are more accommodations made for so many other things than are made for this topic.
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I don't think that "transitioning" automatically makes a transgender service member non-deployable. I guess there would be some recovery time after a gender reassignment surgery but that could and should be scheduled so as to not interfere with deployment obligations. Outside of that I don't see how being in transition would prevent someone from deploying with their unit.
In any case the number of people serving who could _potentially_ miss deployment due to their transition is tiny compared to the number who already do miss deployments due to inconveniently (or conveniently) timed pregnancies, and many of them will never return to deployable status due to child care obligations.
In any case the number of people serving who could _potentially_ miss deployment due to their transition is tiny compared to the number who already do miss deployments due to inconveniently (or conveniently) timed pregnancies, and many of them will never return to deployable status due to child care obligations.
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I could agree, given your constraints, but does this sound familiar?
http://www.ucmj.us/sub-chapter-10-punitive-articles/924-article-124-maiming
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
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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