re: Chief of Naval Personnel told us transgenders will be allowed in this week

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just care if they get the job done.

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No PT required?

That's not getting the job done to me. You want equality? Then you meet the same requirements as everyone else, otherwise frick off. I don't really care who you are or what you look like, but this is the military, not some boy/girl scout camp.

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I don't give a shite what they identify themselves as, if they are one of my Sailors I just care if they get the job done.

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I don't agree with Transgender but really don't care what people do with their own personal lives.

My issue with this is the ridiculously high suicide rate and mental problems of most people who identify as transgender. The military already has a very high suicide rate do to the trauma of war. Now you want to put guns in the hands of people who have a 1 in 3 chance of killing themselves with it. Throw in some harassment and some stress and that number probably goes to 2 in 3 killing themselves and others. I just think this is going to go very badly at some point.

But the military has always been the proving ground for social experimentation. So who knows it might all work out.