Trans Air Force personnel exempt from fitness tests

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http://americanmilitarynews.com/2016/10/transgender-u-s-air-force-airmen-can-now-skip-physical-fitness-tests/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=alt&utm_source=asmdss

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Transgender airmen who are "transitioning" are now allowed to skip their physical fitness tests. Secretary of the Air Force Deborah James made it so by releasing the new "Air Force Policy Memorandum for In-Service Transition for Airmen Identifying as Transgender," on October 6th.

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If a transgender person does fail a fitness test as the gender they are transitioning from then the Airman’s commander must certify that the transgender person "tried to the best of their ability to meet the standards associated with their current gender" that they are transitioning away from.

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Response from a transitioning sailor:

"That actual reason for this (if anyone is interested): if someone is transitioning from male to female, they will begin taking female hormones before they are officially recognized by the military as female. This means that they will have the same hormone levels, strength, and stamina as other females, but will still be held to male standards. This almost guarantees a PT fail. I'm not sure what the Navy will do to solve this, but personally I have just sucked it up and passed male PRTs so far while waiting."
Last Edit: October 21, 2016, 11:30:10 AM by TurkTurkBangBang


 
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the only fitness test that ought to be required to be a fighter pilot should be a friendly game of 2 on 2 beach volleyball


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Your subject is misleading. It's only during the transition that they're exempt. Once that's finished they are held to the same standard as the sex they transition to.


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Your subject is misleading. It's only during the transition that they're exempt. Once that's finished they are held to the same standard as the sex they transition to.

Yes, that's the first sentence of the article.


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Your subject is misleading. It's only during the transition that they're exempt. Once that's finished they are held to the same standard as the sex they transition to.

Yes, that's the first sentence of the article.

But your subject is misleading.


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Your subject is misleading. It's only during the transition that they're exempt. Once that's finished they are held to the same standard as the sex they transition to.

Yes, that's the first sentence of the article.

But your subject is misleading.

It's a paraphrase of the article's title. I don't interject my thoughts when I'm quoting another author.


 
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Your subject is misleading. It's only during the transition that they're exempt. Once that's finished they are held to the same standard as the sex they transition to.

Yes, that's the first sentence of the article.

But your subject is misleading.

It's a paraphrase of the article's title. I don't interject my thoughts when I'm quoting another author.
Mate, you don't get it. Your subject title is a reasonable summary of the article, but is ambiguous enough to be read in a misleading way. It doesn't matter that this can be cleared up by reading the first sentence of the article; this doesn't satisfy my laziness, or stop me from trying to score tribal political points by appearing to side with an oppressed minority . . .

So I'm going to waste my time complaining about it, okay? Fascist pig.


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Your subject is misleading. It's only during the transition that they're exempt. Once that's finished they are held to the same standard as the sex they transition to.

Yes, that's the first sentence of the article.

But your subject is misleading.

It's a paraphrase of the article's title. I don't interject my thoughts when I'm quoting another author.
Mate, you don't get it. Your subject title is a reasonable summary of the article, but is ambiguous enough to be read in a misleading way. It doesn't matter that this can be cleared up by reading the first sentence of the article; this doesn't satisfy my laziness, or stop me from trying to score tribal political points by appearing to side with an oppressed minority . . .

So I'm going to waste my time complaining about it, okay? Fascist pig.

Wow, how else am I supposed to express my thinly-veiled transphobia?


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Are trans people assigned to the 356th cannon fodder division?
Hopefully