(January 22, 2019 at 2:29 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I am 100% for both military and transgender mind you. I have heard conflicting things about -why- they shouldn't be able to serve and I don't know how true it is. So in the American military you can be told no for medical issues and parental issues. IE if you have diabetes you can't join. If you are a single parent you can't join. This is for nearly the same reason. If deployed to no man's land in the middle of the night what are you going to do? Who are your kids going to and where are you going to stash your insulin? I've heard that transgender shouldn't/couldn't because they do need that steady dose of medicine to maintain it. If they get lost, shot down, end up somewhere away from medicine for so and so days/weeks what happens? This is where I am in uncharted grounds, if indeed the medicine stops will it hurt them or will it just mess with their bodies? Even asthma isn't allowed in the military for this reason. I would think that IF it did hurt them to be away from medical supplies then no they should play by the same medical rules everyone else plays by. If it doesn't hurt them physically then the military is playing that "if one can't join none can" and that's messed up.
Trans people can do without the medicine just fine. It's not like they will turn back into their gender at birth. Many actually stop taking their hormones after having been on them for many years. It doesn't seem to make a difference. I don't see any reason that post-operative transsexuals should be prohibited from service. I don't know how common it is for insurance to pay for SRS these days. In my day, insurance absolutely did not cover SRS. If transsexuals are still required to pay for their SRS out of pocket, then a lot of pre-operative people would be lining up for government paid SRS by joining the military. That would be a bit of a problem, since you don't really want people joining just for the medical procedure. The military has never accepted those who are in need of medical care before. If they started to accept transsexuals who are signing up for the free SRS, then it seems like they would have to accept a whole bunch of other people with medical problems.
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