From The Echo Chamber

[Guest]

This is nothing more than an excerpt from a speech by an uninformed conservative blogger to a conservative group.  But it's illustrative of the misinformation that's accepted by many of that ilk as immutable fact:

 

Transgender Service

 

Gender dysphoria is a mental disorder, but again we’re told if those who suffer from it can make the physical standards, they should be allowed to serve openly. But there’s no good reason to do this. We don’t allow anyone with mental disorders in the military for all sorts of good reasons. It perfectly fits the conditions for disqualification according to Army policy as it “would require excessive time lost from duty for necessary treatment or hospitalization.”

 

Contrary to what activists claim, there is a high cost – $1.3 billion over ten years for surgeries alone. That number doesn’t include hormone therapy, mental health services, or costs if there are surgical complications. Leftists also want to extend this cost coverage to military families, including minor children. After surgical transition they are non-deployable for up to two years and the medical treatment can have serious ongoing side-effects. They require ongoing medicines and treatment. Moreover, studies show that these treatments don’t make the sufferers any happier and at least 40% regret going through them.

 

After hammering the military on women’s rights, now women are supposed to forego their right to privacy to accommodate men sleeping and showering with them, even men who’ve undergone no changes.

 

Frank Camp at the Daily Wire suggests we should treat it like we do other dysphoric disorders. Those with Anorexia think they are overweight and will over-exercise and starve themselves even if it kills them. We don’t go along with them and tell them to “live their truth.” We get them therapy and other forms of help.

 

Help, most of all, is what those suffering from this disorder need. They are 40% more suicidal and usually have several other issues like depression, anxiety and substance abuse.

 

The military discriminates on far less than huge mental disorders like one where you think you should be the opposite sex. It discriminates based on height, weight, eye-sight, flat feet, intelligence, gang affiliation, criminal background, personal debt and much more. If you can run a six-minute mile but are diabetic, you don’t qualify. If you can knock out twenty pullups but you’re seven feet tall, you don’t qualify. If you can scale an eight-foot wall with a 150 lb pack but are bipolar, you don’t qualify.

 

It’s right and fair to treat gender dysphoria like the serious and expensive condition it is. Obama was reckless in changing the policy. Doing so had nothing to do with improving the military and our ability to fight our enemies. It was all about pushing social engineering on a group that cannot refuse because it is required to obey orders.

 

There is no social justice in warfare. ISIS, al Queda, the Taliban, Iran, North Korea, Russia – they don’t care that we made our diversity metrics. They’re not just laughing at us. They’re licking their chops waiting to exploit our self-imposed weakness.

[TessaOKC]

What a pathetic article. According to the American Psychiatric Association, 5th edition, released in 2012, Gender Dysphoria and being deemed transgender  is no longer  classified as a mental disorder. Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder until 1973 at which time it was reclassified. Whoever wrote this article has so many facts incorrect that it is beyond ridiculous !!!