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I have been on T for a year now and am a nurse. I want to enlist in the military but am not sure if I can. I am secure enough with myself that I don't care about the gender pronouns used or whatever they would label me as. Am I able to join and still do T while enlisted? Please provide documents with the info if you answer if possible. Thanks!

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Quote from: jadeyn59 on January 03, 2015, 09:57:36 AM
I have been on T for a year now and am a nurse. I want to enlist in the military but am not sure if I can. I am secure enough with myself that I don't care about the gender pronouns used or whatever they would label me as. Am I able to join and still do T while enlisted? Please provide documents with the info if you answer if possible. Thanks!

In theory yes, especially if you can keep "stealth" regarding diagnoses, signs of transition and medication use (although at 1 year of T not likely). In practice no, because of the physical exam performed at MEPS.

see http://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/pdf/r40_501.pdf

There is talk of the ban being lifted but there's no way of knowing when it may happen.