[-] Ithral 16 points 1 week ago

No, the 3rd amendment means your house/apt can't be turned into a barracks.

Refusing service is just how things are, no specific amendment

[-] Ithral 13 points 1 month ago

I joined to get out of a shit living situation, about 1/3 of the people i served with did the same. Everything from parents disowning them to wanting to get out of gang territory.

[-] Ithral 14 points 2 months ago

Why would marriage be an issue? It's convenient for purposes of healthcare coverage, hospital visitation rights, guarantees that without a will stating otherwise your spouse makes all decisions regarding the disposal of your corpse, and they automatically inherit any wealth you have, and if you have military benefits in many cases marriage is required to transfer those, or have them automatically transfer on death.

I'm not monogamous, neither is my spouse, but we are married because of all the above reasons. Marriage isn't about love and monogamy it's about financial and death planning

[-] Ithral 13 points 3 months ago

In the US informed consent is an option in many places, so you can get HRT in days.

[-] Ithral 16 points 8 months ago

The only rationale I've seen consistently is that it's expensive to care for trans people.

I was in and diagnosed with gender dysphoria within about a week of Trump's initial tweet saying he was banning trans people. For about 2 months there it was a bit up in the air whether or not I'd get discharged or not. Ultimately was grandfathered in.

It's not an issue of hormones being available in the field, you can be deployed with a years supply no problem. That said the way the policy worked is you can't start HRT while deployed. (Presumably because of the increased burden of regular blood draws earlier on) If you were seeking to transition you needed the approval of your commanding officer, and that could be denied only if you were deployable and hadn't deployed yet.

There was also the option in there for your CO to basically grant you a year to go to college or something while transitioning to generally make integration smoother, so you wouldn't be stuck dealing with second puberty and regular military service at the same time. Though I have no idea if anyone actually got that. I know at least on person who didn't, or didn't take it anyway.

There's a bunch more nuance, rules, and tricky ways people got fucked over by their commands myself included. But at the end of the day, it really caused basically no problems overall while it was an option. And frankly if you can drag a CPAP machine on deployment trans people are less of a logistical nightmare and shouldn't make the top 10 of medical issues that actually might warrant discharge.

[-] Ithral 15 points 11 months ago

Baba is you, great little puzzle game

[-] Ithral 14 points 1 year ago

Well shit, guess Harris is only real option at this point. I hate this countries electoral system

[-] Ithral 15 points 1 year ago

Wait, are you trying to tell me the moon landing was real? It was clearly filmed in Siberia why else would the ground look so white, it's the Siberian snow obviously.

[-] Ithral 15 points 1 year ago

Become a trapdoor spider, and leave a basket of Bed Bath and Beyond gift cards outside your door as bait?

Step two say ????? No idea what really. Maybe cross your fingers you have a shared interest and the whole kidnapping thing isn't a big deal.

Step three be in a relationship, and probably learn to leave room more often.

[-] Ithral 12 points 1 year ago

Not always, I'll often forget to shower until I look in the mirror and realize my hair needs to be washed. Peak pandemic I'd sometimes go a few weeks without showering until I could smell myself. Just not something that's on my mind most of the time.

[-] Ithral 13 points 1 year ago

I'd guess they did, but I have no way to prove it. Let's build some and find out.

[-] Ithral 13 points 2 years ago

I probably would have bought Bionicles, still sad they got discontinued

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