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Originally Posted by afchic
You have completely lost me. How you can compare someone who is transgender with work ethic is completely beyond me.
Tell me, how do transgenders impact YOUR life? I don't want to here about what they are doing to society, etc.. I want specific cases where they impact YOU.
I have a couple. COL Schroer is one, and I found him to be one of the biggest brained people I will ever know. Since working for him, and being mentally challenged by him daily, I think made me a better officer. I started reading books I never would have read had it not been for him. I started thinking in ways I never would have, on strategic issues important to the national security of this country because of him. Say what you will about Dave becoming Dianne after he retired, but I know a lot of people in the military that were positively influenced by him.
While at NPS I also had a professor who was transgender. Went throught the whole surgery and used the same restroom as I did. I didn't like her politics, but she was a damn fine professor who broadened my thoughts on our strategic interests in the PACOM AOR.
So yes maybe they may have some kind of mental deficiency, or as some of you have stated, a mental illness. That does not mean they do not have value in this world.
If we only limit our interactions with people who look like we do, think like we do, have the same religious preferences as we do, then this world becomes a really boring place, IMHO.
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Every human has value. Even the confused ones.
Individuals make choices in life and that's what they are...individual choices.
When society, like let's say Dept.of Def, recognises these individual choices then they underwrite them...norm them.
Our mission in DoD is simply to fight and win our Countries war s...not come close, not come second, but to win.
Every decision that is made within DoD should start with...."How does this relate to Warfighting?"
I suggest to you that social programs, like transgender norming, have no real place within DoD as they would distract more than add to the focus of individuals and units.
Maybe some time in a land far far away when we are all unisex...or whatever.
Transgenders don't bother me, or prob anyone here, but I don't want the military to have to deal with social issue after social issue that takes away from its warfighting focus.
We have enough bullshit in all of the sundry 'Commanders time' required yearly theater instruction without 'transgender relations' being added to the pile.
Let's take that hour and maybe spend it on the range, huh.
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