The U.S. military faces an unprecedented crisis of recruitment. Last year, for the first time in the 50-year history of the all-volunteer force, the services missed their recruitment goals. The Army fell 15,000 recruits short of its goal last year, in addition to the 8,000 enlisted service members who were kicked out because they didn’t comply with President Biden’s vaccine mandate. Reports show this year’s recruiting may be even worse, with four of the six military branches on track to miss their recruitment goals.
The Biden Administration recently decided to use an enlisted, “non-binary” drag queen as a “poster boy” for recruitment.
What seems clear is that the US Armed Forces using such a person as a recruiting spokes person is likely to disenfranchise the young people, primarily men, that are willing to die to protect this country and unlikely to attract sufficient numbers of capable unhappy or confused individuals to replace those lost.
99.98 % of humans are born with a testes and go on to develop into a typical male or with an ovary and go on to develop into a typical female. A small percentage of these may require surgical intervention or hormonal treatment to complete their development due to a congenital defect related to genes, hormones and/or biochemical processes that affects normal development.
Only a tiny fraction of a percent (0.02%) of babies are born with a congenital defect related to genes, hormones and/or biochemical processes that result in atypical gonadal, genital or puberty development. In these rare cases treatment with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or surgical interventions may be required to enable the typical development of an individual.
Some people are not happy with their sex and choose to live their life as the opposite sex and may pursue various interventions (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or surgical interventions) to help them develop the desired external characteristics.
Some people are not happy with their sex and claim to be neither sex, both sexes, fluid between sexes and choose to live their life as whatever sexual identity they feel and may pursue various interventions (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or surgical interventions) to help them develop desired external characteristics.
But no interventions can convert a person of one sex into reproductively functional person of the other sex.
At what point a person is mature enough to make a permanent life altering decision or what the mental health may be of a person that is so unhappy with their sex that they choose to live as the opposite sex or neither, both, or fluid sex is a topic of debate.
