Re: Our military has taken a brave and historic leap!

U.S. Assistant Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine became the first openly transgender four-star officer in the uniformed services on Tuesday after he was sworn in as the first female four-star admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that Levine was ceremonially sworn in as a four-star admiral, making him the highest ranking official in the commissioned corps, and ceremonially female.

"I am deeply honored to join the ranks of men and women across this great nation to defend the United States" said the admiral in a press release, androgynously omitting any distinction of biological fact, "This is a momentous occasion, and I am pleased to take this role for the impact I can make in building a healthier, more inclusive America."

And we wonder why China is kicking our #ss.

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Oct 20, 2021, 1:24 PM

This is a thing I personally just did not get.

I mean, I'm a guy, and a very straight guy at that. I've never remotely wanted to be a girl. So I just did not get it, like, at all.

But I talk to everybody, and the thing I've consistently heard when I've talked to (the admittedly small number) of transexuals I know is: this is how they've always felt. Their words always sound remarkably like the gays I've talked to...they were born, and this is what they were. Transexuals just always seem to have felt weird and alien in their own bodies, like they were "meant" to be something else and just weren't. And they say it brings them enormous relief to be this other thing they were always "supposed" to be. And they one and all say that realization started very early.

And no, before you ask, most of them do not seem to have been sexually abused. (This was my first thought as well...I thought it had to be some kind of psychological damage causing it.)

Maybe so...but if so, I never picked up on a consistent pattern with any of them. Their parents were all over the map, from really strict to really permissive, some of them liked their parents, others didn't, and some of their parents definitely were not abusive. So if there's a psychological cause durn if I know what it is.

And yet it seems to be a real thing. So I just shrug my shoulders and go with it. If Mike now wants to be called Michelle and dress up in women's clothes and wear makeup, so be it. I dunno if this means Mike should be allowed to go play soccer with the girls because "Michelle" still has a male's muscles and bone density, mind, but most other things Michelle cares to do seems pretty much like Michelle's business, you know? And at least some of them - I knew at least two like this - are shockingly intelligent and capable, and I'd absolutely hire them...for pretty much just about any job they cared to do, actually. (One of them was a freelance Internet researcher for Google and a couple other Silicon Valley firms who was pretty much the world's foremost expert on, well, everything, I keep expecting her to show up on Jeopardy for 70 episodes straight.) Which would include a military staff officer.

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