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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:33PM (2 children)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20461468 [nih.gov]
https://thinkprogress.org/no-high-suicide-rates-do-not-demonstrate-that-transgender-people-are-mentally-ill-5074c09a5827/ [thinkprogress.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:35PM (1 child)
Maybe some of them feel better after surgery. That doesn't make the suicide rate go away.
Maybe blaming the cruelty of society is correct. (doubt it) That doesn't make the suicide rate go away.
If you give a weapon to a person with a 45% suicide risk, and he kills himself, might you be charged with involuntary manslaughter?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:16PM
Yes it does.
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-015-1867-2 [biomedcentral.com]