Uncle Sam Doesn't Want YOU!

The anti-trans brigade will cheer but this is just discrimination. These people graduated from a military college and are clearly qualified to serve

What a waste of money for the taxpayers. Hope they can get military contract jobs?

Or isn't this breach of contract? When you go to the 3 military schools, it's free and you become an officer at graduation and get deployed. If THEY reneg, then I would think a lawsuit would be in order.

This plight of the 0.9% of the population that is trans of 0.00115% of the population that are air cadets sure deserves it's own thread.

None here are service combat vets, so take your trans ok-ness and ..... well, you know.

R4, trans people have served honorably, just like gays. There was a time when most "service combat vets" did not want gays to serve, either

R3, but we need threads to bash the .00000001% of athletes who are trans, right?

It cuts both ways

R5 - I don't think that's true - it was the commanders and officers who didn't want gays and lesbians. When they finally surveyed the enlisted how they felt about it, they said overwhelmingly that they didn't care, which came as a shock to the commanders.

On the one hand, obviously not right.

On the other hand, they still have degrees from the military academy, which while not Ivy League is still very good.

If they're denied commissions, they don't have to serve in the military. Do they have to pay something back if the military declines them, rather than their quitting? While there are usually repayment requirements, I wonder how it would work.

R8 - I believe they still qualify for lifetime military benefits as they are considered active military during those 4 years in the academy.

They would not have to pay anything back, I would think.

During the summers, most academy students are 'placed' into military operations for internships and such. So the weird part is that they HAVE served on a base or in some military capacity ALREADY.

That's why I wonder if they would somehow be used in a military contractor situation - but the problem is - they don't have enough experience for that at age 22.