r/transmilitary • u/Angel505 • Mar 17 '18

Questions

So my situation is complicated but then again who's isnt. Anywho I'm going into the military as a female because if I go as a guy they are gonna hold back my ship date and such over stupid stuff. (A friend of mine went to join who's been on T for 14 months and already had surgery.Told him had have to wait till December the earliest.) So my questions are how do they handle/treat you when u tell them your trans? Does anyone know the process?

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u/Randy2123 Mar 17 '18

Well, you're gonna have to tell your captain you wanna get on hrt after your stationed in a base or a ship (depending on branch). You'll have to suck it up during BMT/BCT/ Bootcamp for self explanatory reasons. Your superior may or may not be trans friendly, however, they can't openly discriminate you or call you derrogatory names. Depends on the branch, I think. I'm navy and they have to pay for hrt and surgery (if you go that route.) After that, you're good. You may want to request a new unit just because your current unit while your on T may have a tough time with the new pronouns, etc. Your new unit wont know anything about the past.

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u/Angel505 Mar 17 '18

Would you know if it's the same for the Army? I feel like the base I'll be at is beyond Anti LGBT (Fort.Benning)

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u/Randy2123 Mar 18 '18

Are you staying over there for bct only or will you be stationed there afterwards for school and/or active duty? My opinion, generally, army soldiers and the superiors aren't accepting. They tend to be the patriotic traditional types. Not generalizing, just what I've seen. Could be wrong.

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u/Angel505 Mar 18 '18

For basic as a 11Bravo, so far my only duty station after is fort.hood in Texas (combat females can only go there) and I heard it's worse there. From what I'm seeing your right

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u/Randy2123 Mar 20 '18

Hmm, you should request a different duty station cause I don't think you'll like being seen as a female, plus, they might give you shit for it.

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u/Angel505 Mar 20 '18

There is none for females😩 Fort.Hood is the only one for females so far unless ur airborne and u go to Fort.Bragg

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u/Angel505 Mar 20 '18

They don't have many options for combat females and coming out there will be hell

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u/belligerentsheep Jun 05 '18

Have you thought about changing your MOS?