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UPDATE/UK- Operation sex swap MoD paying for troops' gender surgery

Started by SandraJane, January 01, 2012, 05:56:58 PM

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SandraJane

The Sun


Operation sex swap
MoD paying for troops' gender surgery


By KEVIN SCHOFIELD, Political Correspondent | Published: 31 Dec 2011

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4030280/Operation-sex-swap.html



DEFENCE chiefs have spent thousands of pounds to help troops have SEX CHANGES.

The MoD used taxpayers' cash to pay towards "minor surgical procedures relating to gender reassignment".

The outlay was made despite crippling cuts in the defence budget.
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fionabell

I didn't realize the army is a group for people who want to find personal happiness in life at the tax payers expense.

I thought it was for defending the country against foreign and domestic enemys. Silly me
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LordKAT

QuoteFewer than five service personnel and civil servants have asked for treatment in that time, the MoD said.



Doesn't sound all that expensive, minor surgeries only and sent to the NHS which is also taxpayer funded.
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Keaira

Quote from: fionabell on January 01, 2012, 09:20:20 PM
I didn't realize the army is a group for people who want to find personal happiness in life at the tax payers expense.

I thought it was for defending the country against foreign and domestic enemys. Silly me

Wow, jealous much?
I'm sorry that the British Military is socially more advanced than America's.  Had Britain allowed openly GLBT people to join back when I was in the RAF, then you might not have had to have worry about me as an immigrant because I probably would not have gotten married and would still be in the RAF.

At least Britain's armed forces  is making an effort towards the morale and mental health of it's personnel. 


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Guantanamera

It seems so astounding to me that I could have been so statistically unlucky. Not only am I trans, but I just so happened to have been born in the most ass-backward state of a bigoted county.

Honestly, had I been offered the opportunity to serve I would have joined the navy. It makes me wonder how many LGBT the armed forces have turned away.

Besides, we all know that they could use a fashion help. They've been rocking olive green for what a century now?
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SandraJane

Jane Fae's Blog



Violent incitement by the Sun and Taxpayers' Alliance

December 31, 2011 ·

http://janefae.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/violent-incitement-by-the-sun-and-taxpayers-alliance/

Well i Had planned (some hope!) to be taking a break for a fortnight or so...both from professional writing and the blogging sort.

However, today's outpouring of nastiness in the Sun, aided and abetted by the vile types over at the Taxpayers' Alliance, draws me out of my temporary retirement. The "story", such that it is, is that the MOD, over the last year or so, paid some £7, 400 towards "minor surgical procedures relating to gender reassignment".
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spacial

QuoteTory MP Philip Davies said: "The MoD is supposed to be about defending the country. What on earth this has to do with that God only knows."

An utterly stupid response, but unlikely to have actually been said.

It's a sad reality that the SUN seems to have taken up the mantle, abandoned by the NoTW. Or perhaps just pursued it even more. British journalists are certainly not ready yet to adopt the integrity and manners of the rest of society.

On a brighter note, the SUN has been inventing outrageous stories like this for many years. To their credit, they rarely embark upon any self-righteous campaigns, even though they have been responsible for some particular nasty deaths in recent years.

I'm sorry to say to Jane Fae, that her approach in her rebuff will almost certainly achieve nothing. For a start, there is a rhetorical principal, which has become largely established by the wealthy, and well off, in recent years, that to make comparative criticisms simply leads to a response of jealously.

Appreciate it's a bit silly, but we can justify criticising people, using poverty, lack of education, mental disability, political stance, even nationality. But we can't cite people being well off.
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