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13 Jul 2015, 2:57 pm

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/p ... 20041.html


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13 Jul 2015, 4:08 pm

This is a very bad idea. Transgenders have a hard enough time as it is in the general population, in the military I can only see the problems being amplified.


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13 Jul 2015, 6:38 pm

That would not be a great idea in some countries at all.



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13 Jul 2015, 6:51 pm

How quickly we forget. Doesn't anyone remember the travesty called Don't Ask Don't Tell that was implemented during the Cl!t-tongue administration? We know how well that worked out.