{"id":1419,"date":"2017-07-26T12:03:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T17:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2017-07-27T12:53:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T17:53:28","slug":"drafts-of-the-non-beer-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"Drafts of the non-beer variety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back when gays were banned from the military, I figured there was either an implied belief that we would never need to draft soldiers again or a big &#8216;*&#8217; following the ban. Because unless they&#8217;re requiring video evidence of your disqualification, I&#8217;d happily claim to\u00a0<em>want<\/em> to do chicks to avoid becoming cannon fodder. Hell, even if they demand evidence, I would\u00a0<em>do<\/em> another chick to avoid being drafted. Became a moot point when the ban was lifted. And then came Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Now trans individuals are banned from the military, can you instantly avoid conscription by claiming to be trans-gendered? The technical definitions I&#8217;ve seen are based on internal experiences and feelings &#8211; there&#8217;s no requirement to undertake reassignment surgery or ingest hormones. Which also brings into question the flimsy &#8220;their medical expenses are exorbitant&#8221; argument.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the actual maybe-a-policy-change that has been made, are tweets now considered official statements of government policy?! Or Trump&#8217;s got absolutely no intention of actually implementing the policy and just wanted a bunch of bigoted supporters to go back to loving him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when gays were banned from the military, I figured there was either an implied belief that we would never need to draft soldiers again or a big &#8216;*&#8217; following the ban. Because unless they&#8217;re requiring video evidence of your disqualification, I&#8217;d happily claim to\u00a0want to do chicks to avoid becoming cannon fodder. Hell, even &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[280,279,278],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-draft","tag-military","tag-trans-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}