National Guard

[Guest Cal]

Today I went on a tour of a National Guard base with a recruiter and my friend from school. He told us about the Guard and it sounds pretty freaking awesome. I could enlist now at 17 and go one weekend a month to drill where I'd get paid to work out and learn about guns and maps and war vehicles and all kinds of stuff I get excited talking about.

If I was a guy.. (Christ if I had a nickel for how many thoughts I've started like that, I'd never have to work again)..I'd join. Right now. Without a second thought or a doubt in my mind. But I really don't know if I can stand 5+ more years as a girl. I'd have to sleep in a girls' barracks, my training partner would be a girl, I'd have to SHOWER in front of other girls. That's my worst fear in the world, being naked in front of other people. And sure I could suck it up and do it (I JUST started pretty much living 100% of the time as a guy since I left highschool) but...gah.

The two things I want and have always wanted most in like - being a boy, and being a soldier, are now very real options to me. But I can't have them both.

[Guest Huff]

The two things I want and have always wanted most in like - being a boy, and being a soldier, are now very real options to me. But I can't have them both.

I feel you man. totally. If you can 'suck it up' and wait to transition for a few years, I'd enlist. But, I'd recommend the military for anyone... just for the experience of it. The cool thing about the National Guard, is that besides your initial 6 months to a year of training (depending on your MOS) and a probable deployment given our current level of operations, you mostly get left alone in your civilian life. You could live as a guy most of the time and deal with wrong pronouns once a month. Not too horrible a deal, if you can stand to wait for T and surgery and stuff. By the time you finished your commitment, you'd still be young. Just my 2 cents.

MK

[Guest Brodey]

you could move to canada? lol

[Guest Jackson]

I'd love to join the military; however, I'm probably too old for it now. And I'm not getting any younger. That's the worst part of it.

[Guest Drew]

you could move to canada? lol

they let trans-people join the army in canada?! man, i wish they'd do that in the states. i'm another one of those people who would really like to join the army...but i'm too far along in transition to even just suck it up and be a girl, and i don't know if i could do that even if i wasn't.

[Guest Huff]

they let trans-people join the army in canada?!

yeah... it's so not fair. I looked into it and it seems that you can be trans and sometimes even transition in the service in Canada, the UK, and Australia. (somebody correct me if I misunderstood)

The US military is so puritanical.

MK

[Guest Becky Lynn]

Hi,

The military is a rough tough place to be, it's still mostly a man's world. No place for satin and lace, oh I broke a nail type women. I think it would be a place that you can really let your inner man out, just strap on that Abrams, or that Apache and go. I would go now before transitioning. It will be the real test to see if you truely belong in a man's world. It's more than just the body.

Becky Lynn