[@POOHEAD189] I think I've been pretty clear on this matter...

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"Special Privileges" are not given to all mental disorders. (Hell, even ones we do aren't often followed. I digress.) Nor does it grant front row to military and jobs that require the most fit and best among us to perform their duties.

We also don't try to make it -not- a mental disorder. We don't usually tell people that their delusions are real, or that the walls are really talking to them. Yes, it's not PC. But it is factual. Unlike the movement pretending depression doesn't even exist. Or people not knowing their head from their ass when it comes to the autistic spectrum. In these cases, we're trying to make it "self-identity" and all positive. Mixing it into homosexual lifestyles. But gays don't have a disturbingly high suicide rate. You don't have to give puberty blockers to three year old's, or lose custody of your children.
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Do you have any proof that transgendered people make the military lesser quality. 

Do you know of any treatment/medication a transgendered person can get to help them feel at home enough in their own body to have no problems as long as they take it? Do you know what it is like to walk into a room designated for a person you feel with all your being you [i]should[/i] be, but physically aren't? Depression can be used as an analogy to gender dysphoria for a few things, but this is not one of them. Gender is far more prevalent in society and cultural outlook than whether you are depressed or not. 
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I think asking that question is missing the forest from the trees. Do we have proof that schizophrenics have a long track record of not being good soldiers? Well, no. Usually, because we don't let them in, in the first place.

Also, depression is a hell of a lot more important than gender politics. But that's just me, and the rising teen suicide rate talking. But we've already seen studies disprove that "acceptance" and going through with surgery/replacement therapy helps matters, when we determine their suicide rate statistics. And saying gender dysphoria is somehow much different from depression, is the kind of downplaying depression and making transgender some kind of special flower ideal, I was just talking about.