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      As much as it pains me to see fellow queer folk get discriminated against, I think it’s for the better for all of humanity to have a weaker US military.

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    I was in the military for over 10 years. A lot of LGBTQ+ people join the military for the same reason White straight men like myself did. They were out of options. I lived in a very rural area with no job or education opportunities and raised by an absentee single mother with no money or property. The military was a way out. Many LGBTQ+ people had the same situation as me. Many others were shunned or disowned by their families and had no other way to get ahead. Their families refused to care for them just for being gay. I served with many people who were as flamboyantly gay as you can get in a combat uniform and I never saw an issue. Never had any reason to doubt their intent or integrity. The people who caused the most problems were other White straight men, especially those from southern states.

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    People with asthma, flat feet, depression, heart murmurs, etc can’t join the military. Why should people with gender dysphoria be allowed to join?

    People who would never join the military are the ones complaining. And if they do join, they should be limited to non deployable jobs.

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      Having gender dysphoria doesn’t impact your abilities on the field. You can still perform all the tasks that a regular person can do. Banning people from joining the military because they are a different gender then they were at birth is moronic, and is just excluding entire groups of people because “MUH WOKE!!! MUH DEI!!!”. Americans need to grow up.

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      Because we aren’t supposed to exist.

      That’s why the rhetoric is so focused on kids. You torture/conversion therapy/get them to Jill themselves, then act like being trans is a “phase” or “fad” or mental illness or ploy to molest girls. There aren’t supposed to be “real” trans adults.

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        The only people saying trans people aren’t allowed/supposed to exist are trans people claiming others are saying it when they’re not.

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          What does Trump’s executive order do other than say trans people are not allowed to exist then? I forgot the part where there was a carve out for trans people.

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          My friend, anyone who watches the news on an occasional basis knows that you’re lying, and that you know you’re lying. I’m not sure why you’re wasting our time, or yours.

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          I have zero regrets about my transition. It really sucks that the place I live treats me as a second class citizen for being transgender, but that is on them and not me.

          Your comments about trans medical care reveal a profound ignorance which isn’t worth engaging with. You aren’t a doctor, and your opinions on endocrinology are probably worth as much as bathroom graffiti. Your opening paragraph is a bunch of stupid, hysterical non sequiturs with no relevance to the current conversation.

          Try again.

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              Didja know that not all trans people take hormones? Also, they aren’t always in pill form - your comments so far seem to indicate that you have absolutely no idea how trans medical care works. T can even be in pellets which you take every few months.

              People who are on medications can join the military. I imagine someone with medical qualifications in endocrinology would be the person to make that call.

              The military allowed trans people under Obama and Biden with no issues.

              Maybe don’t talk about issues you know nothing about?

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                  The trans who don’t take hormones won’t pass for their desired gender lol

                  My first speeding ticket was before I started testosterone. The officer wrote male. My drivers license still said female.

                  I do shots, once a week. Started every other week. No deleterious medical effects over the past ten or so years, barring some issues with high blood cell count, which is fairly easy to manage/eliminate. I do it myself - I’m shit at z-tracking but eh, must not be fucking it up too much. Just to give you a data point, because you seem ignorant about trans people in general and I’m glad to educate.

                  In a military context I can imagine it would be problematic to give oneself injections, but there are gels and the pellets. Estrogen is a pill, can also be injected. But the thing is, you can go without hormones and it’s survivable. Testosterone shortages have been a routine issue forever. It’s not like having to skip a week detranses you.

                  I’m not questioning your knowledge of the military - I am questioning your knowledge of medicine.

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              Not every role within the military is a combat role. I very much doubt that people with asthma or flat feet are barred working, for example, as analyst in military intelligence. And if the military does then the military should scrounge up some actual intelligence.

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                Military intelligence is an oxymoron, no such thing. I wouldn’t have a problem if trans or people with asthma join, they’d have to be non deployable and have a desk job or something similar

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          Lots of people are prescribed pills for lots of things. What the hell does that have to do with anything? You know it doesn’t.

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            Do you know what disqualifies you from military service? You don’t. If you’re prescribed pills for depression or even for being suicidal, you’re disqualified for military service. You can’t even lie about it, because they use a genesis program that will list everything.

            You’re just a virtue signaler.

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      Did you just use some made-up term, so that you could deflect from the real issue? In reality, being trans is not a health problem. I know you want to pretend it is one, so that you can say it’s similar to asthma, but you’re wrong.

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        Do you even know what the real issue is?

        Never said it’s similar to asthma, but trans people do have to take hormones for the rest of their lives, and there’s a lot of disqualifiers for military service as it is. It’s not like joining a health spa. It’s not just the lives of trans, it’s the lives of everyone in the unit. And I know that combat units won’t be able to handle that yet. And you may say that they should, but you can’t just throw one in there and expect them to handle it, especially when it’s a job that deals with life and death.

        You don’t understand. You’re just a virtue signaler that won’t volunteer to join the military.

        Do I care? Nope. But i wouldn’t have a problem if there’s a waiver, and keeps them out of combat arms. Can’t take hormones when you’re in a long ass firefight or skirmish. Can’t stop evading from an enemy threat just so you can administer those meds. Convoys won’t risk driving over IEDs just to deliver them.

        They’d be better suited for support roles if anything.

        Keep being butthurt about stuff you don’t understand.

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          Imagine calling some a “virtue signaler” and then saying the words “Do I care? Nope.” Lmao.

          So, what’s weird to me is that these people seemed to do just fine in the military, and are now being booted for being trans. So, what’s the problem? I mean, the obvious flaw is that not all trans people have to take hormones, and this ban targets people who don’t take hormones the same as those that do. But even if they did have to take hormones, they were doing fine before, so what’s the issue?

          It seems silly to me that the military, with record low recruitment, would ban a population that has a far higher degree of joining them due to a lot of really shitty factors.

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            They were able to join because the military lowered their standards because of the low recruitment numbers lol

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    magats be like:

    • Ban trans people
    • Ban gay/lesbian people
    • Ban non-whites
    • Ban women
    • Ban non christians

    In 2026: Rebel army is made of Non-Christians, People of Colour, Women, LGBT people.

    Also magats: surprised pikachu face

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      You forgot a few more people

      • Catholics
      • Protestants who dont follow the church of Trump
      • Neurodivergant people
      • Class conscious workers
      • Immigrants
      • Non anglo-saxons
      • Non Republicans
      • Republicans that follow any faction other than Trumpism
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      Fuck it.

      Let’s ban all the liberals and queers and women and fems and educated, too. Then let’s get a draft going and set no minimum or maximum age. Let’s start making all our own equipment and you know let’s just not give them anything. Then let’s get into a war with China and not use drones or ai or tanks. Ohh noooooo, all the shitty people diiieedd. Sorry China, we take it back. Yeah, all those rules we changed, it didn’t work out. Oh well. NO MAGATS. VOTING TIME.

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    They just want trans people to die, not to die for their country.

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    When there are fewer LGBT people in the military, then there will also be less resistance from within when the military is used to oppress that very same group. I suspect that might be a reason for the ban. Also I guess there’d be less chance for a coup, but I don’t know how likely that is to begin with.

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      The military is all about indoctrination which is the polite word for “brainwashing”. Our trans friends in the armed forces are just as unlikely to stop stomping on necks as anyone else.

      Nah, this is just general hate toward the Ts (expect the Ls, Bs, Gs, Qs, and +s to follow).