Canada, Dress rules established for transsexuals in military

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Just read an article by Tom Blackwell, (National Post  · Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010) about new guidelines for dealing with transsexual military personnel. Good article, and the closing comment by Cpl. Murray is perfect. "There shouldn't be any issue at all. We're just regular people doing a regular job, the same job as everybody else."

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Dress+rules+establi...

"As U.S. politicians continue to debate whether to let gays serve openly in the American military, the Canadian Forces have issued a new policy detailing how the organization should accommodate transsexual and transvestite troops specifically. Soldiers, sailors and air force personnel who change their sex or sexual identity have a right to privacy and respect around that decision, but must conform to the dress code of their "target" gender, says the supplementary chapter of a military administration manual."

(BTW, be sure to read Topsy's Sudan post too. Just for comparison...)

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