Would you maintain that there is no causation between transgenderism and suicide? I don't think you can brush away the correlation or predictive power, so you'd have to create some alternative theory of causation and its pretty thin to correlate it to being poor or homeless or hiv positive, when the numbers don't support narratives of persecution or display similarly for gay/lesbian populations.



The Obama change allowing them started in October and was recently delayed for 6 months by Mattis just a few weeks ago wasn't it?
The sunk costs are pretty limited



If you put your eggs in hoping the top brass aren't going to agree with this call you're going to be disappointed with the results.

i wanna sex ivanka trump so badly...

pre or post plastic surgery

Oh, I am fully aware that the U.S. military's command is mainly comprised of garbage human beings who the earth would be better off without. But that's not what I am saying. I am saying Trump is lying. He negotiated a deal with repressive Republican elected officials and he's pivoting to make it look like something else.

This post was edited by inkanddagger on Jul 26 2017 11:34am

Each transgender soldier gets paid medical leave/disability and is removed from duty for their transition, paid hormonal treatments, possible paid sex reassignment surgery, then several years of counselling
To copy/paste from reddit;



Something like 3 weeks leave, 12 weeks disability, 24 months counselling, waiting periods before surgery

The costs are at least inordinate to soldiers serving, its hard to argue that these impose any serious readiness issue to the armed forces as a whole, when the number of transgenders is so tiny, but its also hard to argue that transgender recruits are going to pull their weight with the amount of extra resources tied up by them and special considerations they are given. They're going to huge chunk of their time being nondeployable.

I think the argument is a lot weaker when it comes to post-op transexuals, and that's where I think this policy is faulty
If someone is already done with their sex reassignment, done with their hormones or whatever and require no additional maintenance or disruption, what problems can they pose?

This post was edited by Goomshill on Jul 26 2017 11:39am

if it is much more expensive to maintain trans troops, then i'm not sure where i stand
but citing a reddit post isn't going to cut it

hmmm, wouldnt this also create an easy out for soliders who dont wanna get deployed? claim to be transsexual, chose the least invasive form of treatment where nothing is cut off, take some hormones for a couple of months and you have a "get out of vietnam"-card on your hands. not saying that a lot of soldiers would go down this path, but depending on how non-invasive the treatment can be, it should at least be considered.

reich-wing tabloid sites. can you post better links please. preferably from buzzfeed 2.0 or washington compost. otherwise your argument is null and youre a drumpf apologist who knows nothing about anything!
thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You'd have to be diagnosed by a psychiatrist
They tried that on M*A*S*H