Endless war is an expensive business. Cost cutting is a transparently bullshit excuse to start a witch hunt
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Chelsea Manning's own path into the military echoes that of others' my age, trans or cis--
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Vulnerable young people who feel trapped where they are go into the military thinking it's a good way out
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War is expensive not just in terms of the weapons, the R&D, the fighter jets, the explosives-- there's a human cost
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There's a cost to be paid in bodies, in bodily health, in mental health, in lives that are changed sometimes for the worse
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No fucking shit the healthcare of service members is going to be costly, because going to war isn't good for anyone's health
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To start counting pennies now, after having sunk so much money into killing people abroad and sacrificing American lives-- that's repulsive
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For many people in the US, the military is *the way out* of their circumstances exactly because of the benefits involved
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Shutting that door to trans people is a fuck you that will absolutely bleed into other spaces
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They're going to try to push trans people out of that remotely resembles socialized medicine, any kind of pooled public benefit
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Curious to know how that 21% compares to cis people's rates of enrollment. I would not be surprised if it's higher, since...
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story says 10% of the general population has served
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anecdotally and I could be totally wrong, I think disproportionate % has to do with military as a way to leave shitty family circumstances
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in a certain class strata, there just aren't a lot of options to change your life or leave your hometown
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So... less ppl to join, and bring back the draft? What the fuck eh. Says the draft dodger putin-trump...
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Hi Sarah; referring you to politifact's writeup about the numbers. Nonetheless, I join u in being absolutely shookthttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2017/jul/26/mark-pocan/how-many-people-military-are-transgender/ …
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I was wondering about the source of that statistic. That's pretty great.
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