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: 2) by meustrus on Friday December 15 2017, @03:08PM
It's being tried in Iraq, to middling success. Unlike Germany and Japan, Iraq is in the middle of an unstable region going through power struggles. And unlike Germany and Japan, Iraq is ethnically diverse.
We're trying to be friends with Afghanistan too, but perhaps wisely our leaders don't seem willing to fully commit to it while Iraq is still struggling. Afghanistan is sure to have the same problems, but worse. As they say, it is where empires go to die.
We are friends with the relatively stable Saudi Arabia and Israel. Don't ask me why that makes sense since those two are enemies and they're both incompatible with America's secular humanist values. But I know that Evangelicals obsessed with causing Armageddon (it's somehow always about 40 years in the future) have something to do with it.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?