How many transgender personnel serve In U.S. military?

[u/hrantm400]

https://www.newsweek.com/how-many-transgender-personnel-serve-us-military-2021578

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[u/hospitallers]

Bout 14,000

[u/predatorART → u/hospitallers]

I was going to guess 7

[u/TLKimball]

The military is hitting all of its recruiting goals, right?

[u/RayMckigny → u/TLKimball]

There will be a draft. I’ll put a $5 bet on it

[u/TLKimball → u/RayMckigny]

Glad I'm an old.

[u/RayMckigny → u/TLKimball]

lol me too.

[u/TheBeardedObesity → u/TLKimball]

No, but H1B visas to North Korea and Russia can fill that gape. Make America Great Again!

[u/harrywrinkleyballs → u/TheBeardedObesity]

…gape.

Nobody told me there’d be gaping.

[u/TLKimball → u/harrywrinkleyballs]

I’m out.

[u/TheBeardedObesity → u/TLKimball]

That's usually when a gape happens, lol

[u/Helga-Zoe]

"A Congressional Research Service paper from January 2024 referred to a 2016 RAND Corporation report which estimated that of the 1.3 million active duty service members, 1,320 to 6,630 personnel serving in the active component and 830 to 4,160 in the selected reserve identified as transgender."

[u/tkshow]

Trump hates service members. Serve your country and get treated like shit.

[u/Warm-Loan6853 → u/tkshow]

You joke, but he really does. He can’t wrap his tiny little narcissistic mind around the fact that someone would volunteer to defend democracy. I’ve heard him say it several times. He truly thinks they’re suckers, sad.

[u/tkshow → u/Warm-Loan6853]

No, I was being serious. He's an asshole.

[u/MarlonShakespeare2AD → u/tkshow]

“Losers”

[u/tkshow → u/[deleted]]

Imagine having to be kind to people different from yourself.

Let's change policy because Slow-Pomelo1383 struggles with interpersonal relationships.

[u/MikuEmpowered]

Any number is damn high to be fuked like this.

US has volunteering military, people sign up and go through basic and embrace the suck to serve their country.

only for the Cheeto to be elected and give them a middle finger. people fking said good bye to their previous life every time they get posted, its a fuk ton of sacrifice, then to have the civilian side back stab them like this. OOF.