Sex-change soldier wants to keep serving

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I can see it now, BHO wants to have his name caved to stone as the First POTUS that authorized this operation.. We need volunteers...

Sex-change soldier Bridget Clinch wants to keep serving in Australian Defence Force, Ian McPhedran and Padraic Murphy, Herald Sun, November 08, 2010 12:00AM


DEFENCE force chiefs have agreed to pay for the sex-change operation of a soldier who wants to return to her old job training Diggers in extreme sports after her surgery.

Army Captain Matthew Clinch, who served twice in East Timor, will become Bridget Clinch after gender reassignment-realignment surgery, funded by taxpayers.

Victorian RSL president Maj-Gen David McLachlan said he was surprised the Army was picking up the tab.

"It seems a little odd that they would allow such an abnormal situation get this far," Maj-Gen McLachlan said.

"The soldier involved would be putting themselves in a situation where they would be subjected to all sorts of peer pressure."

Asked if paying for the surgery was a good use of defence funds, he said: "It's unusual."

Capt Clinch is in Brisbane with partner Tammy and two daughters on extended sick leave from her job as second-in-command of the army's Adventurous Training Wing based at Wagga in southern NSW, but wants her former job back.

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http://www.news.com.au/national/sex-...-1225949141040

That is if POTUS can find his way out of the bomb proof tunnel while on his visit to India...

Will she reely be called Col Clinch someday???