Remember when lobotomies were required for mental health issues that were unresponsive to other treatment? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
After hearing about the problems in female prisons due to men identifying as women, I’m glad I am no longer part of an institution that could potentially force me to sleep and shower in a place where a man might also prefer to be.
Look, go be your fabulous self if you want- on your own dime. I’m all for the liberty to choose how one lives their life. However, these sort of policies don’t belong in an institution where there needs to be a high level of trust. Members of the military expect their coworkers to be fit, healthy, of a sound mind, and focused on the mission. They expect to be able to trust the people they have to share a dorm, barracks, ship, or tent, foxhole etc with. Given that we reject so many people who want to serve with less issue than GD, it seems insane that our government would put so much time, effort, and money into a program that serves a small population, doesn’t always help that population, and causes logistical problems when it comes to the personnel/ mission that person is assigned with/to.
I think you’ve encapsulated in a few dozen words what the message of this article is all about. I’m sticking (mostly) to the documentarian facts, but yes: we turn away people for a lot less, but we are bending over backwards to accommodate a few genuinely GD individuals and in the process opening the door for abuse by opportunistic pervs. And doesn’t the military have a massive sexual assault problem?
I thought about bringing up the sexual assault point directly, but figured it was implied with my point about how this experiment is already going in prisons (pretty interesting how women in a women-only prison can end up raped and pregnant…) but yes, let’s subjugate our military women to more opportunities for it. And for that matter, the men too (https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/01/24/female-army-colonel-fired-over-sexual-assault-harassment-allegations/)…sure this was just a commander in a position of power, but it can only get worse when you put people of mixed gender (regardless of how serious their gender identity is) in their private places like sleeping/shower. It can happen to them, too.
Remember when lobotomies were required for mental health issues that were unresponsive to other treatment? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
After hearing about the problems in female prisons due to men identifying as women, I’m glad I am no longer part of an institution that could potentially force me to sleep and shower in a place where a man might also prefer to be.
Look, go be your fabulous self if you want- on your own dime. I’m all for the liberty to choose how one lives their life. However, these sort of policies don’t belong in an institution where there needs to be a high level of trust. Members of the military expect their coworkers to be fit, healthy, of a sound mind, and focused on the mission. They expect to be able to trust the people they have to share a dorm, barracks, ship, or tent, foxhole etc with. Given that we reject so many people who want to serve with less issue than GD, it seems insane that our government would put so much time, effort, and money into a program that serves a small population, doesn’t always help that population, and causes logistical problems when it comes to the personnel/ mission that person is assigned with/to.
I think you’ve encapsulated in a few dozen words what the message of this article is all about. I’m sticking (mostly) to the documentarian facts, but yes: we turn away people for a lot less, but we are bending over backwards to accommodate a few genuinely GD individuals and in the process opening the door for abuse by opportunistic pervs. And doesn’t the military have a massive sexual assault problem?
I thought about bringing up the sexual assault point directly, but figured it was implied with my point about how this experiment is already going in prisons (pretty interesting how women in a women-only prison can end up raped and pregnant…) but yes, let’s subjugate our military women to more opportunities for it. And for that matter, the men too (https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/01/24/female-army-colonel-fired-over-sexual-assault-harassment-allegations/)…sure this was just a commander in a position of power, but it can only get worse when you put people of mixed gender (regardless of how serious their gender identity is) in their private places like sleeping/shower. It can happen to them, too.
Drake meme:
( / ω＼) feign temporary insanity
(＾ω＾)b feign gender disorder
wow...