You Broke What???

In reference to yesterday's Cyrsti's Condo post concerning my "broken strut" - I'm afraid Connie, my personal "strutting" days are over. 

Actually, we are talking about my fender bender "ouchie"  on my Rolls Royce. Without any replacement parts needed on me as of yet. 

I would like to "pass" along as a final aside to the event, I did pull up my big girl panties into a giant wedgie and called the guy back myself. (Leaving Liz out.) I do believe the guy came out of all of it feeling a little confused. Hell-welcome to my world buddy!

I suppose I should come up with some witty saying that if you want to get out of something you did in boy drag-you have to send in a transgender woman to do it. Close enough.

A Cyrsti's Condo "Reminder!!!"

Don't forget:  The 2015 U.S. Trans Survey is coming August 19 and is the new name of the largest survey ever devoted to the lives and experiences of trans people. It’s the follow-up to the groundbreaking National Transgender Discrimination Survey, which was released in the 2011 report:Injustice At Every Turn.

Much of what we know about trans people in the U.S. has come from this study, and it has been an important source of information about who we are for advocates, policy makers, and the public.

But first and foremost, the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey is our community’s survey. It is a survey for all trans identities, including trans, genderqueer, and non-binary people. It is for us, about us, and by us. As the community’s survey, the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey data set and results will be available to community advocates, organizations, and researchers for years to come.

Go here for info.

Transgender Military Service?

Yep,finally transgender military service may be becoming a reality!

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 5, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The Obama administration, is prepared to lay out the plan that will allow "transgender" soldiers to serve openly the military.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter wrote in a public memo last month that those in charge of implementing the new policy "will start with the assumption that transgender persons can serve openly without adverse impact on military effectiveness and readiness unless and except where objective, practical impediments are identified[.]"

The dismantling of the transgender ban officially began Monday, according to USA Today, when higher-ups in the Pentagon met to discuss how best to integrate openly transgender troops into the U.S. armed forces.

Many practical aspects of the change remain undefined, including what uniforms transgender soldiers will be expected to wear and to what sort of health care they will be entitled. Carter has called for a "working group" to sort out these issues by early next year.

The Pentagon announced last month that it would terminate the military's ban on transgender people serving "openly" – i.e., dressing and behaving as members of the opposite sex.

Carter said at the time that "the Defense Department's current regulations regarding transgender service members are outdated," comparing the military's emerging policy on transgender members to its adaptation to the changing strategies of terrorists on the battlefield.

“We must ensure that everyone who's able and willing to serve has the full and equal opportunity to do so," he said.

Wowza!!!! Read more here. Most certainly the health care aspects will be interesting since the Veterans Administration already takes care of a veterans HRT care. (for the most part.) But unless I have been missing something-nothing on SRS. I wonder if it will become an addition as I am a transgender veteran.

One way or another it has been time for the military transgender hypocrisy to go away!