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Openly Trans Soldier Speaks: ‘I Feel Liberated’ by the End of Pentagon’s Transgender Ban
Daily Beast ^ | June 30, 2016 | Nancy A. Youseff

Posted on 07/01/2016 10:14:56 AM PDT by C19fan

Even before the U.S. military ended its ban Thursday on transgender service members openly serving, Army Sgt. Ken Ochoa, 26, already knew what it meant to openly serve. Ochoa, who joined the military in 2010, transitioned in 2014, well before the military considered lifting the ban. He heard that other troops had made the transition and discovered an inner peace that came with the change. So he made the decision to follow suit, knowing he would silently become a different person before his fellow soldiers, his company commander, and his friends around the base.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: army; lgbt
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To: NonValueAdded

It called a Loppadictomy. You just offended a bunch of folks.


21 posted on 07/01/2016 10:42:47 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: BigEdLB

Or, “lopadickoffomy”.


22 posted on 07/01/2016 10:45:22 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

I have heard Rush use, “Loppadictomy”


23 posted on 07/01/2016 10:47:36 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: C19fan

Co-signing mental illness is BS

Should have been assigned to John Hopkins


24 posted on 07/01/2016 10:48:19 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: C19fan

I can’t even imagine how much of a laughing stock our military has become.

The military’s purpose is rather simple...to kill people and destroy things...no rules of engagement.

Other country’s militaries aren’t being used as social experiments or being constricted by unreasonable rules of engagement. My fear is that someday when ours meets theirs on the battlefield, theirs will decimate a once great military.


25 posted on 07/01/2016 10:49:26 AM PDT by kdmhcdcfld (Use of this tagline without the express written consent of Free Republic is prohibited.)
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To: BigEdLB

My recollection is that the two words he uses are “lopadickofomy” and “addadicktomy”.


26 posted on 07/01/2016 10:50:22 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: C19fan

Don’t get captured , they know your name now and they’ll turn you into a woman with a spoon


27 posted on 07/01/2016 10:52:10 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: C19fan

If one of our normal soldiers laughs at the weirdo, he’ll be fined, get a dishonorable discharge and do five years in Leavenworth..


28 posted on 07/01/2016 10:55:01 AM PDT by just me (GOD BLESS AMERICA Amen)
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To: C19fan

I’m certain that is why the army exists, to make him feel better.


29 posted on 07/01/2016 10:56:42 AM PDT by rey
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To: GreyFriar

thus does the military throw out the height and weight standards?

They just redid the standards. Men can go up to 26 percent before failing and woman can go up to 42 percent before failing. Prior numbers were 22 percent for men and 33 percent for women.


30 posted on 07/01/2016 10:57:34 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: longtermmemmory

We should go back to do ask and do tell.

That is a fantasy. It will never go back to those days 100 percent.


31 posted on 07/01/2016 10:58:56 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: C19fan

OH How cute. He found inner peace. That’s what it’s all about isn’t it. Well, do we ban abortion because that would bring inner peace to a lot of people. Do we ban Muslim refugees from Africa because that would bring a lot of inner peace to people of Maine and Minnesota. Do we ban Obama because that sure as hell would bring inner peace to the nation.


32 posted on 07/01/2016 11:04:55 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: C19fan

Frosty the Snowflake speaks out.


33 posted on 07/01/2016 11:06:56 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Rise up America! This country can't take eight more years of Marxism and Socialism.)
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To: C19fan
So he made the decision to follow suit, knowing he would silently become a different person before his fellow soldiers, his company commander, and his friends around the base.

There was nothing silent about this snowflake's "transition"

34 posted on 07/01/2016 11:09:06 AM PDT by MortMan (Let's call the push for amnesty what it is: Pedrophilia.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Can you imagine when/if ISIS gets ahold of that? Like, for example, in the Persian Gulf patrol boat incident a few months ago.

I'll be an international crisis. How dare they treat a transgender not according to the cultural standards of Westerner?

For this woman, it could turn out real, real bad. They'd ransom her---but after doing what?

35 posted on 07/01/2016 11:14:00 AM PDT by gg188 (AMERICA FIRST)
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To: C19fan

Women do not have the upper strength of a man. Period. I
spoke with an officer over 20 years ago who said he got
OUT after his bunch could not bug out when the bugout
exercise was done. His bunch of women could not lift the
heavy equipment; so they just simply DID NOT because they
COULD NOT. - IF a heavier male soldier is wounded on the
battlefield; this “macho muchacho” will not be able to
cut the mustard and carry him out. This stupid “Hillary
Clintonization” of the military would be laughable IF it
weren’t so sad. The Psalms were right when they referred
to the condition when “women” shall rule them.


36 posted on 07/01/2016 11:17:43 AM PDT by Twinkie (Cowards die a thousand deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.)
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To: C19fan
Internal announcement at a CONUS DoD installation:


37 posted on 07/01/2016 11:19:10 AM PDT by Federal Bureaucrat
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To: C19fan

The Beast is the AntiChrist of Revelations.

This mental illness is celebrated in The Daily Beast.

There are no coincidences.


38 posted on 07/01/2016 11:20:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Hillary: "Weapons of war have no place on our streets."... Laz: "Muslims are weapons of war.")
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To: Twinkie
Remember when this once meant something special, not "Special".


39 posted on 07/01/2016 11:25:45 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: gg188
For this woman, it could turn out real, real bad. They'd ransom her---but after doing what?

Well the first thing they would do is pull a rape train on her. I've read that raping Lesbians has become a thing in the Muslim world.

Then they would make her wear a Hijab, etc, and behave like a female. If she became too much trouble, they would burn her to death or behead her.

40 posted on 07/01/2016 11:31:09 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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