I served 20 years in the US Air Force. This is a tough issue for me as I see both sides of the issue. The military is NOT like a civilian organization and often times accommodation cannot be made for people that are different. Does a man that has had HRT and has breasts and a pens go to the common showers with men or women? Do you put her in a common sleep space with men or women? At what point does she wear the female uniform?

With the close living and working conditions, I guarantee that person would be bullied, made fun of, ostracized and biased against. It could cause an entire unit embarrassment and affect esprit DE corp. I know I'll be slammed for this post, but it would be true for some units depending on their mission.

Yes, many, many carrier fields would lend well to TGs. But, as they cannot discriminate, some fields would not be viable for a TG person. Remember that we represent only about .3% of the population and most people accept gays much more than TGs.

I have mixed feelings about this since I'm TG and was in the Air Force as well. If they had found my stash in the barracks it would not have ended well.

What a person does on their off time is private, as long as it doesn't reflect on the service. If a MTF wants to wear a dress to the mall, that's fine, as long as they don't identify themselves as a service member in a public way. We have been doing that forever and it should stay that way.

In a perfect world, I would have loved to wear the female uniform. But, it's not realistic even in today's world. The military has one goal. To fight and to win. Distractions of the magnitude making TG political correctness and punishing people for using the wrong pronoun is anathema to harmony in the ranks. There is too much PC in the service now. Injecting TG correctness would only make it worse.

I feel sorry for the 2000 plus people that came out when they were told they would be accepted. I suppose those people will be involuntarily separated and that is absolutely unfair to them.

I was excited to hear that TGs would be allowed and wished that would have been the case 30 years ago. In addition, the military health care paying for transition was particularly interesting to me as I might have used that privilege. But, after considering the complexity of the issues, I don't think the US military is ready for it. Yes, other militaries allow it, but they are much smaller than our military and other cultures are more tolerant of nonstandard individuals.

Okay, let me have it girls, I know I'm in the minority on this one!