Just Curious
Why would anyone say no? The ONLY even remotely reasonable ‘no’ position is increased medical costs, but that’s negligible. I can’t understand why you’d say no to this.
Would they be recruited by male or female standard?
Would trans men be expected to meet male physical fitness standards?
For the ‘which gender would they be recruited as’ and ‘which gender fitness standards’ audience...the military already addressed this before the ban. It’s not complicated. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.military.com/daily-news/2016/11/07/navy-no-exceptions-fitness-standards-transgender-sailors.html/amp
The main objection is specific medical cost. So if costs can be considered preexisting conditions and not eligible for Tricare benefits, I wouldn't object.
Well don't be shy about pulling random things out of your a55!
LGBT patriot has equal opportunity, right?
LGB should be kept separate from T. Sexual preference doesn’t impact ones ability to serve in a combat ready position by itself. T on the other hand is a mental health issue that does directly impact someone’s ability to serve in a combat ready role. If you have a schizophrenic L then clearly the schizophrenia, not the sexual preference, would negatively impact the individual’s ability to serve.
It absolutely is a mental disorder despite your copy and paste. The fact that trying to claim people are not distressed by it is BS. There would be no need for hormones, surgeries, or suicide if it wasn’t distressing.
If it doesn’t affect their readiness for deployment (physically, mentally, etc) then sure, who cares.
But it does and that’s the problem.
Based on no evidence from you, Akamai
Yes
Does being transgender prevent them from doing their duties more so than any other soldier?
It’s actually does due to emotional stability related to their condition and the hormones. Since there is a high rate of suicide even after transitioning, that’s not someone that should be putting others lives at risk. If the individual is pre-op, still emotional concerns but worse they’re unable to be deployed while undergoing transition which can last for 12+ months. That’s like me accepting an offer at FB as a SWE and saying, sorry I can’t doing any coding for you for 12 months but I still want you to pay me and have it count toward my overall commitment.
But is the emotional instability any more severe than the emotional instability of new recruits (maybe not the typical recruit, but the emotionally unstable recruit)? I’m also supposing that a trans person who is already too unstable for service would not be allowed to join, not because of being trans, but simply because they are unstable (as any unstable person may be barred from service).