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Pentagon to Allow Transgender People to Enlist in Military

posted by mrpg on Thursday December 14 2017, @03:20PM   
from the battle-in-the-courts dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

Transgender recruits will be allowed to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, the Pentagon said Monday, as President Donald Trump's ordered ban suffered more legal setbacks.

The new policy reflects the difficult hurdles the federal government would have to cross to enforce Trump's demand earlier this year to bar transgender individuals from the military.

[...] Potential transgender recruits will have to overcome a lengthy and strict set of physical, medical and mental conditions that make it possible, though difficult, for them to join the armed services.

Maj. David Eastburn, a Pentagon spokesman, says the enlistment of transgender recruits will start Jan. 1 and go on amid the legal battles.

Pentagon to allow transgender people to enlist in military

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• Most were ripping us off. Most were ripping us off. (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @04:14PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @04:14PM (#609740)

  They'd get a $250,000 worth of surgery at military expense, then spend the whole term of enlistment recovering.

  The whole point of joining is usually to get free surgery.

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• Re:Most were ripping us off. Re:Most were ripping us off. (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:02PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:02PM (#609909)

  No the whole point is to destroy Western society by eroding the family structure in order that radical Islam can impose Marxism on rural America. Duh!

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  • Re:Most were ripping us off. Re:Most were ripping us off. (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:42PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:42PM (#609935) Journal

    Maybe I have some misconceptions. I'll readily admit that I might. But does radical Islam tolerate or allow transgender people to actually live?

    If transgender people can't get their surgery paid for by joining the military, then what are they going to do? Especially since we don't have universal basic income yet. /s Oh, nevermind. Don't even reply to that. Forget I said it.

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    • no, but Shia Islam does! (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @12:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @12:15AM (#610003)

      Iran has an unusually large amount of transition surgery. It's done all the time. See, a religious leader determined that it was a legit disease, but being homo does get you killed. Therefore, if two guys want to get married, one of them just transitions and then everything is 100% legal and accepted.

      Outside observers strongly suspect that many of those who transition would rather have not, but that would have meant hiding or dying.

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