{"id":63957,"date":"2017-08-01T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63957"},"modified":"2017-07-31T09:16:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T14:16:40","slug":"15000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63957","title":{"rendered":"15,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been seeing it all over the place; “Progressives” objecting to President Trump’s new policy on transgender servicepeople by claiming that there is a veritable swarm of transgender servicepeople. \u00a0One study that ban opponents are bruiting about, from UCLA<\/a>\u00a0(or, rather, from a GLBT group whose data a UCLA GLBT-law focus group accepted – claims that there are as \u00a0many as 15,500 transgendered people in the armed forces today.<\/p>\n

Let’s think about that for a moment. \u00a015,000 people out of 2.2 million – the number of currently-serving people in the military – comes out to roughly 7\/10 of a percent, or 7 out of every 1,000 – roughly one out of every 140- people.<\/p>\n

That means in every Army and Marine rifle company, there’s a transgendered, er, rifleperson.<\/p>\n

In every flying squadron in the Air Force, Navy and Marines, that’s a couple of transgender people.<\/p>\n

That’s 3-4 on every SEAL team, 2-3 in every Ranger battalion, and 12-15 in every US Special Forces (“Green Beret”) group.<\/p>\n

That’s one on every submarine, and one or two on every\u00a0Arleigh Burke-<\/em>class destroyer, and 35 on every aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n

That’s about 160 at the Pentagon – and right around 1,500 at Fort Bragg, Fort Campbell, Fort Hood and Fort Lewis –\u00a0each<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s a rate of transgender dysphoria that means that there are fully a quarter as many transgender people as there are gays.<\/p>\n

I dunno. \u00a0It seems like…an\u00a0overestimate<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been seeing it all over the place; “Progressives” objecting to President Trump’s new policy on transgender servicepeople by claiming that there is a veritable swarm of transgender servicepeople. \u00a0One study that ban opponents are bruiting about, from UCLA\u00a0(or, rather, from a GLBT group whose data a UCLA GLBT-law focus group accepted – claims that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63958,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63957\/revisions\/63958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}