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rhino wrote on Jul 11 th, 2017 at 5:39pm: John Smith wrote on Jul 11 th, 2017 at 5:37pm: Thanks John, from your links Quote:The Army’s Standards of Medical Fitness states that transsexualism, gender identity, and transvestism are among several “personality or psychosexual conditions,” including voyeurism and paraphilias, that “render an individual administratively unfit.” Poor old Rhino: he forgot to provide a source for his quote. No probs. I'll help him out. Plus, I'll post some more text from the article he took it from. First, the date: "Jul 14, 2015" And then: "While roughly 15,500 transgender people are estimated to be currently serving in the military ... "
"Since the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in 2011, the military has taken incremental steps towards full LGBT inclusion. Numerous studies and memos, including a supposedly confidential paper from the Congressional Research Service (Congress’s “think tank”), have concluded that the ban should be repealed, and it is now significantly harder to kick transgender service members out of the service for being transgender."LinkShall we move forward a year? "JUN 30 2016, 2:45 PM ET"
"Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced an end to the military’s longstanding ban on openly transgender service members on Thursday, fulfilling a key piece of the Obama administration’s historic legacy on LGBT rights."LinkTime to put down the shovel, Rhino. More research, and less digging.
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