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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about completing the surgery and hormone rounds first, then joining the service. Take the "trans" out of it. Declare the new gender. [/quote]

Umm ... you never complete the hormones. It's lifetime maintenance.[/quote]

So, there isn't one member if the armed forces who currently take a pill or pills for something on a daily basis? No generals taking Lipitor?

Whee does the military stand, say, if a man who survived testicular cancer wants to join? Or a woman who developed breast cancer at 22 and list both breasts?[/quote]

Whoa -- I was actually pointing that out in favor of the trans troops. My point is that this idea that you could have a pure post-op DADT policy is impossible. Trans troops will be "out," at least to their doctors, unless they choose to serve as the gender assigned at birth and never act as their true gender.[/quote]

I understand what you're saying. I'm just pointing out that both they and the government could simply approach the situation the way we would handle other health issues. Then the transgender individual, just like everyone else, needs to weigh the risks and benefits of his or her chosen line of work and consider the nature of their situation. If you want to join, complete your reassignment and take your pills and serve. But if your pills are getting in the way of serving- if you're not comfortable taking meds in front of others or the pills make you sick, this the military isn't for you. And I'd say the same regarding any health issue from flatulence to lymphoma.  [/quote]

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