Here's How 'Cadet Bone Spurs' Dishonors Our Troops

Troops are just props to chicken-hawks like him

Hate admitting this but this article made me shed a few tears. This is my opinion with a few facts sprinkled in and I'm not looking for attention or spotlighting. I get enough attention at my unit just cause I'm the, in my 1SG's words, "most angriest map maker I have ever known".

I've served nearly ten years (it'll be ten this November) of my entire life for the defense of my nation despite having a medical condition for eight of those ten years that I couldn't fix without risk of a dishonorable or OTH discharge. That's ten years out of the fourteen adult years I've lived (so far) that I volunteered for my country, even knowing the risk of life, limb and emotional/mental health. I served when my country's law said that as a bisexual "need not apply". I shut my mouth and enlisted. Even with what senior leadership did to out and discharge LGB Soldiers, we pushed forward and outlasted them. Even when I was breaking medical regulation because of the prior gender dysphoria I had experienced, we outlasted those leaders who didn't believe in us as we believed in them.

Today, I'm honorably serving my country while deployed to Afghanistan. What the left-leaning media would say; "a trans female Soldier", serving in a war torn nation, an austere environment whereas it's difficult to gain the medical needs, this whole fear is actually a Nothing-Burger.

Today, I've fought myself from telling my story. Between the left-leaning service members/civilians who hate me and the right-leaning service members/civilians who hate me, I'm still here and that's the reality of it. I am vey appreciative of our President's ability to stand tall and give his opinions regardless of possible hurt feelings. But it's not okay to base military policy on personal opinions. It's my personal observation knowing that I'm serving in Afghanistan and our President haven't even visited the troops yet. I want him to come here so he knows that he isn't always right, that he still can end this last minute policy change without supporting evidence situation. I want to see my President in Afghanistan so he knows that the Troops support him, including the transgender ones.

He made this comment: "There's nobody bigger or better at the military than I am." — June 2015 Fox News interview without setting a foot in the military. JROTC does not count.