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US Military to lift ban on Trans service members
« on: July 13, 2015, 05:17:47 pm »
So a few weeks after the Gay Marriage ruling the US Military is now in the finalizing a plan to lift the ban on Transgender service members.  This is grand news for people like me and others who wish to serve openly as trans.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/13/transgender-in-military_n_7787060.html

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon leaders are finalizing plans aimed at lifting the ban on transgender individuals in the military, with the goal of formally ending one of the last gender- or sexuality-based barriers to military service, senior U.S. officials told The Associated Press.

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Re: US Military to lift ban on Trans service members
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2015, 05:51:59 pm »
Excellent!

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Re: US Military to lift ban on Trans service members
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2015, 05:53:39 pm »
I'm reminded of an article I read a little while back:
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This is all a stark illustration of what has become a deeply cynical but highly effective tactic. Support for institutions of militarism and policies of imperialism is now manufactured by parading them under the emotionally manipulative banners of progressive social causes.

The logical next step would be to stop providing military aid to regimes with disastrous human rights violations, but I'm betting this will just be a new coat of paint on business as usual.
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Re: US Military to lift ban on Trans service members
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2015, 01:51:43 am »
I'm reminded of an article I read a little while back:
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This is all a stark illustration of what has become a deeply cynical but highly effective tactic. Support for institutions of militarism and policies of imperialism is now manufactured by parading them under the emotionally manipulative banners of progressive social causes.

The logical next step would be to stop providing military aid to regimes with disastrous human rights violations, but I'm betting this will just be a new coat of paint on business as usual.

Do you have a special talent for raining on other people's parades?

Or are you like Junko Enoshima? Is despair just your "thing"?
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Re: US Military to lift ban on Trans service members
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2015, 02:46:05 am »
I'm reminded of an article I read a little while back:
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This is all a stark illustration of what has become a deeply cynical but highly effective tactic. Support for institutions of militarism and policies of imperialism is now manufactured by parading them under the emotionally manipulative banners of progressive social causes.

The logical next step would be to stop providing military aid to regimes with disastrous human rights violations, but I'm betting this will just be a new coat of paint on business as usual.

Do you have a special talent for raining on other people's parades?

Or are you like Junko Enoshima? Is despair just your "thing"?
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Re: US Military to lift ban on Trans service members
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2015, 02:55:21 am »
Ironchew: Despairingly they refuse to give into despair and see no bright end of the tunnel...oh, this fills me with such despair, that they will not despair. Oh despair~
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Re: US Military to lift ban on Trans service members
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2015, 08:38:23 am »
Ironchew: Despairingly they refuse to give into despair and see no bright end of the tunnel...oh, this fills me with such despair, that they will not despair. Oh despair~

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Re: US Military to lift ban on Trans service members
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2015, 03:04:53 pm »
Really? Was he taught by Zetsubo-sensei? (look it up)


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Re: US Military to lift ban on Trans service members
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2015, 03:39:33 pm »
Ironchew: Despairingly they refuse to give into despair and see no bright end of the tunnel...oh, this fills me with such despair, that they will not despair. Oh despair~

For a second I thought that said 'Ironshrew'.

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Re: US Military to lift ban on Trans service members
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2015, 03:41:24 pm »
Ironchew's quite a character, isn't he?

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Re: US Military to lift ban on Trans service members
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2015, 05:11:07 pm »
This is great! So much for Gay Marriage will End the queer rights movement!
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