tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post7813301739292005287..comments2024-03-28T13:37:26.314-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: No Transgender MilitaryGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-35897542886236329142017-07-31T15:04:20.093-04:002017-07-31T15:04:20.093-04:00I can't remember where I read this: The Presi...I can't remember where I read this: The President added that he fully supported the right of transgender Americans to believe they are members of the military.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-86707489199544992482017-07-26T21:59:45.535-04:002017-07-26T21:59:45.535-04:00"hormone treatments and combat effectiveness&..."hormone treatments and combat effectiveness"<br /><br />Oh, hell yes, it's a problem. <br /><br />I only took hormonal birth control pills for a short time in between IUDs in my mid-thirties. I was a civilian in a comfortable location, working, with no great stress or money problems.<br /><br />I did not like taking a pill a day at a specific time, so I switched back to the IUD. After I switched back, I realized I was also feeling a lot less emotional. It was only after I stopped that I realized I had been having mood swings, a new experience for me. I compared notes with a friend, and she had noticed the same thing for herself. We both decided that pills can make you crazy.<br /><br />Those pills are supposed to match our systems. Only God knows what a bunch of added testosterone would do to me! I do for a fact know that too much of the right hormones is bad for me.<br /><br />People do not take the mind-altering quality of sex hormones seriously, nor does anybody know what the real, day-to-day levels (much less hour-to-hour levels) of these drugs are supposed to be. The emotional side effects of birth control by women and steroid use by athletes are well known. <br /><br />Hormone treatments will undoubtedly affect an individual's combat effectiveness, because they affect how a person thinks and feels. I became brittle under minor stress. And that is just the individual: I hate to think of the impact on the unit's combat effectiveness. Aside from the emotional and attendant social effects there are problems of logistics and maintenance and supervision of the treatments.<br /><br />ValerieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com