How the Military Became the Country's Largest Employer of Transgender Americans

[stephaniec]

How the Military Became the Country's Largest Employer of Transgender Americans

https://priceonomics.com/how-the-military-became-the-countrys-largest/

"Priceonomic/By Ben Christopher ·

Why did Lily Kidd join the Marines?
Ask her about it now and she offers a variety of answers. She needed to escape an unaccepting family. She wanted to experience life outside of Alabama. She was eager for a physical challenge ("I don't go half in on anything," she says).
But she also joined the United States Marine Corps because, as a twenty-year-old living in the Deep South with a fiancé, Lily Kidd was still presenting herself to the world as a man."

[Deborah]

"Rangers Lead The Way"

Hooooah


It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide, Autumn Leaves

[Michelle_P]

Huh.  Imagine my surprise.

A young transgender woman who is trying to deny her gender identity, he wrote, may join the military as a way of "purging his feminine self [sic]."

This sounds awfully familiar to the former service members on this board. I actually am surprised someone tried to study this taboo subject and published results.

What happens when the inevitable rollback of the new trans policy comes along, and the military is threatened with the loss of their best and brightest?

And at the other extreme, does this point out a potential new recruiting strategy for the Armed Forces?

Interesting stuff in that article. Thanks for posting it.


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[AngieT]

This sounds awfully familiar to the former service members on this board.

Ain't that the truth.  i think that a lot of us went through an "ultra macho" phase trying to pretend to be the person others expected us to be.