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Transgender student, 19, whose 'childhood dream' was to join the military, loses college scholarship because of Trump's ban
2019-04-18
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Map Pesqueira, 19, was given an ROTC scholarship to the University of Texas

  • Now, he has been told it is ineffective because he won't be able to join the military when he graduates

  • Map was Maddie until last year when he underwent reassignment surgery on the upper half of his body

  • He has started hormone therapy and has legally changed his name and gender

  • The teenager wants to carry on studying but cannot afford it without the scholarship

  • The US Naval Academy is also banning transgender people from 2020 onwards

  • On Friday, a federal ban on transgender people joining the military went into effect
Posted by:Fred

#9  Maddie is no more a guy than someone with scale tattoos and horn implants is a dragon, so stop it with the he crap.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-04-18 16:03  

#8  So a mentally ill person who has had themselves surgically mutilated and subjected to massive doses of developmentally antagonistic hormones won't be allowed to force the military

Perfect candidate for the Foreign Service.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-04-18 11:59  

#7  She wanted to become the Evil White Male(tm)? I'd say she had issues just on that. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-04-18 07:11  

#6  Soldiers died in Afghanistan when transgender Cbelsea defected to the Taliban.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2019-04-18 04:15  

#5  Plus force the taxpayer to fund more mutilation...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-04-18 02:47  

#4  So a mentally ill person who has had themselves surgically mutilated and subjected to massive doses of developmentally antagonistic hormones won't be allowed to force the military to partake in their delusion and deal with their medical issues?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2019-04-18 02:24  

#3  Couldn't she have just stayed lesb1an and joined the Navy?
Posted by: Nero Uninemp6884   2019-04-18 02:20  

#2  How unutterably sad! Life for Map is not a fairy story.
Posted by: Theting Tingle4282   2019-04-18 02:07  

#1  Map was Maddie until last year when he underwent reassignment surgery on the upper half of his body

You know, I used to be in full support of boob jobs; I just don't know anymore.
Posted by: Raj   2019-04-18 01:11  

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