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U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer

posted by Fnord666 on Friday September 22 2017, @08:32PM   
from the should-have-drafted-Demi-Moore dept.

takyon writes:

The U.S. Marine Corps will soon have its first female infantry officer. The unnamed lieutenant is expected to lead an infantry platoon of about 40 marines:

The Marine Corps is set to have its first female infantry officer, a milestone in its nearly 250-year-long history.

The lieutenant is scheduled to graduate with her all-male peers on Monday after she completed all of the graduation requirements in the service's grueling 13-week Infantry Officer Course, the Corps said. Her completion of the course was first reported by The Washington Post. The officer's name was not made public.

The course was opened to women in 2012, and on an experimental basis. More than 30 women attempted it, but when none passed, the course was once again closed to females in the spring of 2015. After the Pentagon opened all military jobs to women, four additional women tried the course without success.

Also at The Hill.

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• Re:Nice Re:Nice (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @10:27PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @10:27PM (#571859)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender [wikipedia.org]

  Cisgender (often abbreviated to simply cis) is a term for people whose gender identity matches the sex that they were assigned at birth. Cisgender may also be defined as those who have "a gender identity or perform a gender role society considers appropriate for one's sex". It is the opposite of the term transgender.

  https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cisgender [urbandictionary.com]

  an adjective for someone whose gender corresponds to their assigned sex

  I am perfectly comfortable identifying as the gender my parents put on my birth certificate. I am cisgender.

  http://time.com/3636430/cisgender-definition/ [time.com]

  Cisgender is a word that applies to the vast majority of people, describing a person who is not transgender.

  Also known as "cis scum".

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• Re:Nice (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday September 22 2017, @10:52PM

  by bob_super (1357) on Friday September 22 2017, @10:52PM (#571875)

  > the vast majority of

  What a quaint way of saying "the quasi-totality of" or "all but a few of"

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• Re:Nice (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Saturday September 23 2017, @12:09PM

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday September 23 2017, @12:09PM (#572076) Journal

  So in other words, "man" and "woman." We do have those perfectly serviceable words to describe people whose gender identity matches their genitals.

  Gender studies is an interesting field. Having a gender identity that does not map to "man" or "woman" must be lonely, painful, and difficult. But resorting to semantic archana to redefine "man" and "woman" as something other than standard is passive aggressive. More, it's weak.

  You're different. Different is good. If you are feeling alienated and uncomfortable because your neighbors don't respect you, move to New York. It's the city of black sheep. Celebrate who you are and cherish the unique perspective you bring to the world around you, here. I guarantee nobody would look at you sideways.

  Anyway, embrace your identity. Don't cheapen it by lashing out at others with petty word games. You're better than that.

  --
  Washington DC delenda est.

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