I wonder what troops thought of their trans members. I suspect they treated them like the gay Marine in Generation Kill. Everybody knew he was gay, gave him loads of shit, but he was no less a team member.
I served with a trans person, on a ship no less. People still said insensitive shit behind closed doors, so I can only imagine what their private thoughts might have been. I never saw anything overt and everybody seemed more interested in how well she did her job, but I bet she would tell it very differently.
The “gay marine” named Rudy Reyes, who talks about his girlfriend and certainly isn’t gay? You mean that one?
But the point you’re erroneously attempting to make is valid: whether people are straight, gay, trans or other, they are your team member and, if they do their job well, should be treated no differently to anyone else you trust your life with.
I wonder what troops thought of their trans members. I suspect they treated them like the gay Marine in Generation Kill. Everybody knew he was gay, gave him loads of shit, but he was no less a team member.
I served with a trans person, on a ship no less. People still said insensitive shit behind closed doors, so I can only imagine what their private thoughts might have been. I never saw anything overt and everybody seemed more interested in how well she did her job, but I bet she would tell it very differently.
The “gay marine” named Rudy Reyes, who talks about his girlfriend and certainly isn’t gay? You mean that one?
But the point you’re erroneously attempting to make is valid: whether people are straight, gay, trans or other, they are your team member and, if they do their job well, should be treated no differently to anyone else you trust your life with.