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Life for Captain Hannah Winterbourne, a transgender soldier in the British army
http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/life-for-captain-hannah-winterbourne-a-transgender-soldier-in-the-british-army/story-fnh81p7g-1227189585640 ^ | January 19, 2015

Posted on 01/19/2015 7:41:15 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

A SOLDIER serving in the British Army has become the first and only transgender officer.

Saying she was “living an act” Captain Hannah Winterbourne, 27, decided to become a woman while on tour in Afghanistan reported The Mirror.

Winterbourne, an officer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, began her transition in 2013 and is now the highest ranking trans soldier in the British Army.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: army; homosexualagenda; transgender; winterbourne
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"Transition." That must be the PC-word.
1 posted on 01/19/2015 7:41:15 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Somewhere, the Duke of Wellington is spinning in his grave.


2 posted on 01/19/2015 7:46:39 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

meanings, definitions, premises and conclusions. All products of white male patriarchy.


3 posted on 01/19/2015 7:47:36 AM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I thought trans was short for transsexual or transgendered.

Its hard to keep up with all of the gender descriptions. In a world in which Facebook recognizes 56,different gender designations, I have fallen behind. I am binary in my thinking about just male and female. I will be sent to reeducation camp.


4 posted on 01/19/2015 7:47:39 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I have to say this in his defense. Women have been crossdressing for years. They wear their husbands or boyfriends jeans, shirts, etc and even wear them out and about. So if a guy want to wear a dress, (Although I don’t recommend it) he gets blasted and attacked for it. So if he wants to act like a girl, well, millions of girls act like boys so have at it. I don’t care


5 posted on 01/19/2015 7:48:57 AM PST by realcleanguy
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To: ConservativeStatement

I thought she was sentenced based on the headline


6 posted on 01/19/2015 7:53:34 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: ConservativeStatement

From the title, I thought he was going to prison for something.


7 posted on 01/19/2015 7:54:38 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You WILL conform. You WILL get on board with this, or we will MAKE you wish you had! /s :0)


8 posted on 01/19/2015 7:56:05 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: ConservativeStatement
...it's the little pieces.


9 posted on 01/19/2015 7:56:34 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: ConservativeStatement

Oy, Tommy Atkins, what ‘ave they done to ye?


10 posted on 01/19/2015 7:58:29 AM PST by IronJack
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I see a very disturbing trend is in the pipeline...


11 posted on 01/19/2015 8:04:36 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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She’s a lumberjack and she’s OK


12 posted on 01/19/2015 8:06:22 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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And thus goes the Empire...

Kipling would be appalled.


13 posted on 01/19/2015 8:07:00 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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The only good thing about this, is that if he is captured by jihadists, they will be quite confused when they try to rape him.


14 posted on 01/19/2015 8:11:14 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: realcleanguy

The difference is, a woman can pull off wearing man’s clothes. She probably won’t look as attractive, but she can still be perfectly presentable.

A man wearing women’s clothes is automatically a spectacle.


15 posted on 01/19/2015 8:12:52 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: ConservativeStatement
I hope the British Military will be just as accommodating when the people who think they are chickens start demanding their rights.


16 posted on 01/19/2015 8:20:53 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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And thus goes the Empire...

Someone who's opinion I generally respect suggested the ascendency of this sort of nonsense in England and other parts of Europe is possibly the result of the fact that so many normal and manly men were killed in WWI and WWII and what was left over was an over-representation of cowardly poofs.

Kipling would be appalled.

Maybe not. The primary characteristic i've seen in several of Kipling's poems is the clear understanding of the foolishness of human nature. This one, for example tells me that he understood the consistency of fools in our society all too well.

17 posted on 01/19/2015 8:27:44 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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What squaddie is going to follow this freak into battle? OTOH, Ord Wingate was a bit of a nutter too.


18 posted on 01/19/2015 8:41:35 AM PST by Rummyfan
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“...the result of the fact that so many normal and manly men were killed in WWI and WWII and what was left over ...”

I’ve heard that too. Makes sense.

RE Gods of the Copybook Headings”
Very familiar with that. I think he would be appalled at just how far the society did in fact descend.
For example, that citizens or subjects could stand by and watch one of their soldiers (Lee Rigby) murdered in the street, and do NOTHING to help him.


19 posted on 01/19/2015 8:41:55 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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The only good thing about this, is that if he is captured by jihadists, they will be quite confused when they try to rape him.

Heck, it wouldn’t slow them up for a second...


20 posted on 01/19/2015 8:44:15 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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