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US military lifts transgender ban

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US military lifts transgender ban
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RE: US military lifts transgender ban
June 30, 2016 at 4:51 pm
Absolutely no surprises whatsoever. I had "Texas" in my mind earlier as a dead cert, along with a fair few other Southern states
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RE: US military lifts transgender ban
June 30, 2016 at 4:54 pm (This post was last modified: June 30, 2016 at 4:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 30, 2016 at 4:36 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'm guessing there are few surprises on that list.

Nope...pretty much what we've all come to expect, eh.
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#23
RE: US military lifts transgender ban
July 1, 2016 at 2:11 am
(June 30, 2016 at 2:41 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(June 30, 2016 at 2:25 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: It baffles me that they took so long to legalise gay marriage. It's the year twenty fuckign sixteen but oh well it looks like this is how (un)progressive the world is.

Massachusetts legalised it in 2004, almost an entire decade before the UK.

That's because America is awesome!

Hey, I'm saying America is late because the world is late. Even the first country in the world to ever legalize it was late. It should have been legal from the very beginning!

U.S.A. > U.K.
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RE: US military lifts transgender ban
July 1, 2016 at 2:31 am (This post was last modified: July 1, 2016 at 2:33 am by SteelCurtain.)
I am surprised that Florida 'legalized' gay marriage before Obergefell. I say 'legalized' because they were challenged in court and lost, same with VA, NC, and SC.

Wow, I think every other state below the Mason-Dixon just had bans overturned by courts.

There were only 11 states in the US that either voted or legislated gay marriage into legality.

http://gaymarriage.procon.org/view.resou...eID=004857
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