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Home Front: Culture Wars
Transgenders Now Excluded From Air Force Physical Fitness Test
2016-10-26
In their ongoing effort to accommodate "transgender" military personnel, the Pentagon has announced that transgenders will be excused from the Air Force fitness test if they're in the middle of their "transition."

That' right, airmen (air-women? Air-people? Air-humans?) who are "transitioning" from female to male or vice-versa will be exempt from their physical fitness tests if they're in the middle of their hormone treatment. Officially, the order reads they can skip the test "during their period of transition, prior to a gender marker change in the MilPDS," if they have already failed a test.
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Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#10  Or, if you prefer a direct link:

http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/transgenders-now-excluded-from-air-force-physical-fitness-test

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Posted by: OregonGuy   2016-10-26 15:20  

#9  Next - wheel chair enlistees

Wait'll you see the ADA compliant F-35.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-10-26 14:34  

#8  I'm guessing

Service: Airforce;
How many: under 10,
Why: Because the Air Force is most likely to cave to their demands.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-10-26 13:02  

#7  I would like to see if they've tracked numbers of Transgenders in the military. Which service has more, how many, and why the choice.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-10-26 13:01  

#6  @#1: AUTHORIZE TO CONTINUE
Get full access to extra features with Linkis, or proceed to the page here

Click on the "here." That will get you to the article w/o Twitter.
Posted by: Huperemp Untervehr1365   2016-10-26 10:18  

#5  Next - wheel chair enlistees
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-10-26 09:17  

#4  Transgenders Now Excluded From Air Force Physical Fitness Test

Given the thoroughly deranged attitude the USAF has always taken towards the PFT, I almost wonder if this isn't a fiendishly clever plan to get rid of the test entirely.

Mike

/PFT monitor for four years
//Deployments were easier
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2016-10-26 05:57  

#3  'I won't be coming in today, my transition hurts.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-10-26 03:29  

#2  I suppose transition treatments are expensive hence the demand that vets who fought in Iraq and Ganistan repay their signup bonuses, plus interest in order to pay for a more important effort, the destruction of our military by our Muslim president and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Posted by: Punky Panda3514   2016-10-26 02:06  

#1  Have to 'Authorize with Twitter' to view the page? No thanks!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-10-26 00:06  

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