Well, sure, but Beck's sex is male and Beck was physically male while in the Navy. And, Beck only transitioned after leaving the Navy.Animavore wrote:http://uk.businessinsider.com/kristin-b ... &r=US&IR=TKristin Beck, transgender Navy SEAL hero: 'Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy'
That's asking a bit much, Kristen. You're talking about an honourless, spineless coward who doesn't have the guts to visit blue states and said he won't go to Britain until the people are more welcoming of him because he knows he'll have to face crowds of people who think he's a useless, morally bankrupt fool who should never have been put in charge of giving oranges at half time at a rugby match, let alone a whole country.
I don't support a "ban" on trans people serving in the military, because that would exclude people who are sexually males but feel female and want to call their gender female or nonbinary or fluid or whatever.
That being said, this is a difficult topic to talk about because it engenders such anger, and the language used is ponderous and almost impenetrably vague. There are some issues with a Navy SEAL with gender dysphoria needing to spend time on counseling and transitioning and then going through hormone treatments and surgeries to try to change genders. A Navy SEAL has to spend most of their days training, and training hard. It's not really any different than someone who is a Navy SEAL but has any other commitment or personal issue which causes them to to not be able to attend to their duties. Just because those other issues are medical or psychological doesn't mean they can remain Navy SEALs.
I guess in principle I'd say that in a perfect world women and trans people would be allowed to serve if they can meet the normal requirements. However, it seems that no matter what happens, in order to include women, we have to change physical standards, change barracks arrangements, and modify bathroom arrangements, change the way drill sergeants handle basic training, etc. And, to accommodate trans people, suddenly to be treated equally we have to pay for counseling, psychological and psychiatric help, medical interventions, hormone treatments, etc., and then suddenly men referring to each other insultingly in the locker-room manner becomes an issue of harassment and such.