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Title: Why do transgender people join the military in such high numbers?
Post by: stephaniec on September 05, 2015, 01:57:01 PM
Post by: stephaniec on September 05, 2015, 01:57:01 PM
Why do transgender people join the military in such high numbers?
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-transgender-military-20150904-story.html
LA Times/By Alan Zarembo 09/04/2015
"As a young psychiatry resident at Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the 1980s, Dr. George Brown was surprised the first time he saw a transgender patient..
Estimates at the time were that for every 100,000 biological males in the general population, no more than three were transgender.
Brown figured the rate had to be even lower in the all-volunteer military. It made little sense to him that a transgender person would choose to join an institution that by its nature had no tolerance for deviance.
Yet over the next three years, Brown saw 10 more transgender patients — all of them seeking hormone therapy and male-to-female gender reassignment surgery. He began to suspect that the military, despite its ban on allowing transgender people to serve, was somehow attracting them at a disproportionately high rate."
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-transgender-military-20150904-story.html
LA Times/By Alan Zarembo 09/04/2015
"As a young psychiatry resident at Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the 1980s, Dr. George Brown was surprised the first time he saw a transgender patient..
Estimates at the time were that for every 100,000 biological males in the general population, no more than three were transgender.
Brown figured the rate had to be even lower in the all-volunteer military. It made little sense to him that a transgender person would choose to join an institution that by its nature had no tolerance for deviance.
Yet over the next three years, Brown saw 10 more transgender patients — all of them seeking hormone therapy and male-to-female gender reassignment surgery. He began to suspect that the military, despite its ban on allowing transgender people to serve, was somehow attracting them at a disproportionately high rate."
Title: Re: Why do transgender people join the military in such high numbers?
Post by: Dee Marshall on September 05, 2015, 04:08:42 PM
Post by: Dee Marshall on September 05, 2015, 04:08:42 PM
I've observed over the years that we MtFs tend to high risk occupations and hobbies. I never tried to attribute a reason to it, though.