I'm not really a tranny but you insisted I pretend I was last night after you gave me the 50 bucks.

That's nes, do you really think he gives a shit?

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Guys like this are why I moved from Other to St. Pierre. Other has gotten almost as bad as Bulgaria these days.

Except then you use the slur. Please don't.

Sorry.

That's nes, do you really think he gives a crap?

I'm curious about the logistics of how this is going to work. From my time in the Army I know that the military has different expectations and standards for men and women. The physical fitness test for one, 2 minutes of push ups, 2 minutes of sit ups and a two mile run is required every year. The standards are different depending on what gender the soldier is, males must be able to perform a minimum of 42 in a two minute period just to pass but for females that number is 19 or 20 IIRC. It's similar with the two mile run, females are allowed more time than males, I don't remember the exact times but there was a 2.5-3 minute disparity. The Army also measured our BMI and body fat %, again there was a lot more leeway given to female soldier. If a soldier is transgendered, which scale is appropriate to use? Which uniform regulations do they follow? Also in my time communal showers were the norm, the only semelance of privacy was that men and women used different bathrooms. I don't know if this is still the case (we're talking 15-20 years ago) but that would be a concern as well.

or begin research again of the gay bomb. I read in a science magazine that they stopped it because of embarassing testing results but I would hazard a guess and say they didn't manage to make it work. It's quite the ingenious little invention, using this against homophobic nations.

Harsh.. I abhor push ups, I could probably pull 10 before I pass out and I'm a light weight. Did it take long for people that didn't manage that minimum to begin with to beat it or do people give up or are already prepared?

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Well there is a minimum standard to even join. If you are too out of shape or overweight they won't even let you in the military. Once in however they whip you into shape pretty quickly during the two months of Basic Training. It would not be exaggeration or hyperbole to say I did between 250-300 push ups a day during that time, some days even more. If you had trouble with push ups going in you were cured of that in a hurry.

Every two weeks they ran us through a practice test and broke us into groups depending on our score. Since I was a skinny guy who could run well they put me in the advanced running group where we ran 6-8 miles every morning, followed push up sessions where we had our feet elevated, usually on someone else's back. The big slow guys got their own special treatment, I'm not sure what they did but it definitely worked. We had one kid who barely made the weight to get in, he was a little over 6 feet tall and well over 200 lbs. He was built like Homer Simpson and had the pale complexion of someone who spent their days watching TV in their parents basement. His last name was Eisenburg but he was nicknamed Iceberg, as in a large white mass you don't want to run in to. After 8 weeks he was ripped, lean and unrecognizable to his family and friends. We decided that the name Iceberg no longer applied and started calling him Drago, after the Dolph Lungdren character in Rocky 4.

It sounds like torture, but I genuinely have fond memories of that time.

there goes TinyE, Triggering people once again.

Lower the bar for everyone, obviously. Because to not do so would be unfair.

Somehow.

Let me explain what REALLY pisses me off about this. Last August, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I had planned on joining the Air Force, but I'm now ineligible for service. I was heartbroken, but I understood the reasons. Now the Armed Forces is giving a pass to a specific group of people with a mental disorder - and yes, it is a disorder - in the name of political correctness. Bipolar doesn't get enough headlines, I guess. I had resigned myself to the fate of non-service, but now I feel betrayed. The rules have been bent, broken, for a very very small yet vocal minority, leaving people like me by the wayside.

Fighting them is transphobia. That is a tactical advantage worth having vs at least some countries I guess.

Have you ever considered that maybe this is a case of apples and oranges and unlike with transgenders the army might have practical reasons to have reservations about people with bipolar disorder in their ranks?

Being transgender is not a disorder. Gender dysphoria (feeling like shit and functioning substantially less than optimally due to the inability to present as one's own gender) is. Openly serving trans people will presumably not be dysphoric, and it is in fact the ban on trans personnel which encouraged dysphoric people to enlist instead of getting treatment (see: Chelsea Manning).