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[–] 123 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Surely the army would conscript them to a cybersecurity red team?

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  • [–] 58 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    military bad, draft bad.

    but, yhea, gender discrimination is also bad. not sure if finding roles for them in the system is progress.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I think the joke is that at least in the west there is a very high amount of people in the tech industry who are trans.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Also in military intelligence for that reason. At least if my veteran friends are telling the truth

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    No, its true. The door behind any S2 shop is locked not to keep people out but to keep the furries and cat girls in. Can't have them mixing with the regular troops. A hybrid would be too powerful to contain. The military has done all they can to prevent it but recently they had to create the spaceforce in a vein attempt to stop the spread of :3

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    Draft tends to apply to men only, so they probably can't conscript them, even if they want to.

    Here in Germany, men can get drafted, even during peace time, while women can only be required to work in healthcare during a war.

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  • [–] 75 points 4 months ago

    Hey, you can't be sure these girls aren't also there to visit their boyfriends in the army.

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  • [–] 62 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    In Greece they check that you have 2 balls. You can't serve if you have one only.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    nah, nuts implies two (or more!)

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  • [–] 46 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    ... So Thailand actually has significantly better trans rights than the US does.

    Because currently, in the US, trans people do not legally exist.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Iran has better trans rights than the US does...

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    I mean it's a bit more complex obviously, e. g. it's highly medicalized, you need a "gender identity disorder" diagnosis to legally transition and GAS in order to change your legal gender, but on the other hand HRT and GAS are state subsidized among other rights and protections specific to trans people.

    see here for more https://outrightinternational.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/OutRightTransReport.pdf

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Your source is a decade old. The situation has deteriorated in practice after the 2022 protests, with the regime seeing trans people as connecting with the broader Western lgbtq+ movement and so "importing harmful ideas". Source from last year: https://uprdoc.ohchr.org/uprweb/downloadfile.aspx?filename=13540&file=EnglishTranslation

    In general, it's not that Iran recognizes "trans people". There is no (officially allowed) trans identity. Medical and surgical transition is allowed as a way to "smooth a flaw" and assimilate into cishet-normative society. It is often applied as a way of state-sponsored conversion therapy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/middleeast/iran-transgender-surgery.html

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  • I'm sorry what exactly has changed since then, on a systemic level?

    Yeah the US trying to pinkwash their war efforts has certainly made the situation for LGBTQ people more difficult, but that's not a phenomenon unique to Iran. It's the same in Russia, large parts of Africa, West asia and I think latin america as well. If the nation hostile to you (like e.g. bombing schools while they're in session) is also loudly proclaiming they want more gay rights, the knee-jerk reaction is that this must be a hostile act aimed at dismantling your society as well. That's one of the ways how capitalists divide society into different identities and pit them against eachother.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    It's complicated. Thailand has a continuous culture of recognizing gender non conformance (in part due to having never been colonized).

    It's not amazing, and a lot of transfeminized people in Thailand are pushed into sex work, as well as facing some social stigmas. But from everything I've heard it's a lot better than a lot of the world

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  • The US excludes us too, but it just feels... different.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Mandatory military service is a slavery.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    It can be a good thing.

    While Canada doesn't have it, most of our military usage is disaster relief and it comes with free education.

    I wouldn't mind everyone having to help in shelters, evacuate people, or fill sand bags in exchange for free education.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Those drafted can also pay to not go to the military. My girlfriend's brother who is now living abroad paid i think ~200€ to not have to go there

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Sounds cheap enough for not having to serve for two years

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Could you just show up in a dress and say your trans or do they make some attempt to verify?

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  • [–] 55 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    like "install arch linux without setup scrip within 20 minutet. go!"

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    "compile a kernel in under 9 months"

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    Draft bad

    Gender discrimination bad

    but in this case, somehow, they cancel each other out.

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  • [–] 43 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    To be honest, if a country is gonna implement a draft or some form of compulsory service requirement, it should be gender neutral, and apply to their citizens universally, with no bearing on gender identity. By all means keep the physical fitness standards to ensure force effectiveness, but possession of one or another particular combinations of genitalia should not play into the equation at all.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    On one hand, I agree with you, on the other hand I don't want to impose a military draft on 50-ish % of the population. On the other other hand, true gender equality would be if it didn't apply to anyone regardless of gender cause fuck drafts

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Having a country's population be trained in the military can have some benefits. (Yes I know this is very vague)

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Higher education will have a far more profound impact.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    It took me 15 seconds to read that explanation and I understand it fully without ever even going there. Terrible answer to the posted question.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    The post is incorrect to begin with. I don't know the source of the photo, but in Thailand, the service is based on a lottery for men. You may easily never roll it. There are many thai students (girls too) that do military training during their high school years on some days and don't have to serve later. Also, this transitioning strategy will work in most countries in the world as most of them don't allow transwomen.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    "Trans women" should be written separately, as "trans" is an adjective.

    "transwomen" and "transmen", on the other hand, are common dog whistles used by science denires to imply trans people are in a category of their own.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I've been a trans rights supporter my whole life. Trans rights = humans rights. But now I'm being accused of using dog whistles because I don't follow the latest terminally online trends from extwitter/bsky on how to properly phrase things? You need to pick better battles, my man,

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Trans is an adjective, so it's simply incorrect to ever write trans women without a space. TER"F"s have been using "transwomen" as a dogwhistle for over a decade, it's not some new speak.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is such of a niche of a niche of a niche of a niche of a problem, I can't even. All this language debate stuff was fine in 2015 when things were good. Now it's 2026 and we're having the absolute worst people running every country it seems. We have to focus on big things like right to repair, right to privacy, right to your data. Not debating a usage of a single space "trans" and "woman"

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    I think I completely understand this situation and I do not live in Thailand.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Is this because trans peeps are not allowed in the military or because women cannot enlist?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    If this was the only way to avoid the draft, I would become trans sooooo fast.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Many All of them are gorgeous

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Sooo this is a good way to meet sexy singles in my area?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Protect the dolls

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Well fuck, now I know where to go in thailand. Now, just to find when to go.

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    Cute, more like.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    I think this is privilege and unacceptable.

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  • [+] -8 points 4 months ago (1 child)