[Salman]

Just a little more info about PFC Manning.

[SVTCobra03]

Yes it does, Zinnia.

[The Toll]

Uh.....isn’t “Bradley” a gay enough name as it is?

[circlecity]

If you have a “disorder” then I would consider you to be unstable.

[circlecity]

If you have a “disorder” then I would consider you to be unstable.

[circlecity]

If you have a “disorder” then I would consider you to be unstable.

[circlecity]

If you have a “disorder” then I would consider you to be unstable.

[circlecity]

If you have a “disorder” then I would consider you to be unstable.

[Darksheare]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2965867/posts

CIA recruiting those wonderful “Stable” types as we speak.

[circlecity]

If you have a “disorder” then I would consider you to be unstable.

[circlecity]

If you have a “disorder” then I would consider you to be unstable.

[circlecity]

If you have a “disorder” then I would consider you to be unstable.

[circlecity]

If you have a “disorder” then I would consider you to be unstable.

[Slump Tester]

The quarterback - he was in the service AND he’s a transgender?

[struggle]

He might have been race-confused too and thought he was Asian.

[Myrddin]

I don't care how Manning identifies himself. He violated his security oath and caused hundreds of contacts to be killed as a consequence. He needs to face a firing squad.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

ping

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This didn’t work to get Klinger out of the army so it shouldn’t work to get Manning out of jail. Breanna can sit in a cell for 20 or 30 years just as easily as Bradley can.

[ArGee]

Being transgender doesn’t mean you’re unstable

Of course it doesn't. Why, you see transgender people walking down the street all the time. And look at all those transgenders the rich hire to be their bodyguards. And the stories about transgendered accountants at the big banks. Everyone knows they're as reliable as you or I.

[Sherman Logan]

Likewise, being transgender doesn’t mean that someone is therefore “not stable” or is at risk of harming themselves. Can the condition of gender dysphoria sometimes cause enough distress to endanger someone’s well-being? Yes, but this is far from a certainty, and it doesn’t mean there’s an imminent risk that they’re going to commit suicide.

Sigh.

The author is of the opinion that not every single person who is transgender is dramatically unstable or a suicide risk. I think few would dispute him/her on this point. It is no doubt possible to be transgender and reasonably stable in all other aspects of your life.

But that's not the issue the military faced. They had to determine whether his on and off trans-identification was an indicator of possible instability.

And obviously it is.

You get into a variant of this argument all the time with discussions about the danger posed by mentally ill people. Those who claim there is no danger will dramatically shout that "not all mentally ill people are dangerous," or that "most mentally ill people are not dangerous to anyone else."

As with the Bradley/Brianna case, this is no doubt true. It's also totally irrelevant.

The question is not whether every mentally ill person, or even most of them, are dangerous. It's whether the mentally ill as a group pose a greater risk, and how much greater that risk is.

Sheeeesshhh.

[Sherman Logan]

For someone who’s transgender and identifies as a woman, the use of a name which they feel matches their identity is entirely normal.

IOW, this behavior is perfectly normal for someone who is highly abnormal.

Wait, what???