I should note I believe that major news media sources in the USA today are more or less an arm or tool of the US Government.
Okay, so, the Federal Government it appears is preparing to push--at the right political time and right political climate--the US military to allow transsexuals or those that have taken hormones or have had cosmetic surgery to look like the opposite sex, to serve in the US military. Likely when this is approved the US military will be required to finance or even perform all medical and cosmetic aspects to transitioning from one sex to the other (although, technically, from a biological science perspective no human can change the sex they were born--though they can their sociological gender).
I might not have a problem with this, so long as under so-called "equal protection under the law" the US military no longer criminalizes military men injecting testosterone or anabolic steroids and lifting weight. Especially for "ectomorphs," some of whom suffer emotionally and psychologically from being small and frail.
Contrary to what many chair-sitting Americans today think, it is much, much harder for a ectomoprph man (or most bigger men actually) to gain muscle mass than it is for a big boned man to lose body fat. Many men can drop 60 or 80 pounds in 12 months time. Very few if any men can gain 60 or 80 pounds in 12 months time. It might take a man 10 years of dedicated diet and exercise to gain 30 pounds of muscle mass.
So, why is it okay to court martial a US military man using steroids because he is emotionally a psychologically troubled over how his body looks, but
morally good to help a US military man take female hormones, testosterone blockers, have cosmetic surgery for breast implants and to put more fat around their hips? Or morally good for a US military female to take testosterone to look like a man?
I used steroids--injected testosterone (Mexican Sten)--when I served in the Marine Corps. About 25% of my company (of the men) seemed to in my estimation going by who I knew used them (it was a closed circle as you could be tested and court martialed).
I was a small male my entire life. I got tired of being small and chose a radical leap
to become happy and to this day I have zero regrets using steroids. I didn't have "roid rages" and I ate healthier and in terms of physical health it was the best I ever felt in life. I felt then like I could run through a wall.
All the scare tactics, propaganda against men using steroids is rather absurd. And you don't drop dead--not overnight. I'll wager anti-depressants are far more dangerous. Every drug has a potential negative side-effects. Steroids are no different. But you can't OD on steroids. And if they were so fatal and horrible then its inexcusable doctors can prescribe them to women let alone for cosmetic looks to look more manly.
I'm not against the rights of men to take female hormones or for women to take testosterone. I'm not against people having the
protected to have sex changes.
And the US Federal Government would likely argue that opposition, giving court martial to military men taking female hormones and testosterone blockers, and transitioning into a woman
is all religion and therefore meaningless subjective bias.
But then what is the objection and irrational fear mongering over regular Joes' taking anabolic steroids for increased muscle mass, especially when people like Joe Biden morally pontificate as to how immoral or unethical it is for the average small guy to take them (or the above average athlete at the college or professional level).
As an aside... I got tattoos on my forearms when I was in the Marines. Now I'm told the US Marines actually bars anyone with tatts on their forearms from entering today. Let me guess. They "morally" object and it's not the "decent" image they want to portray of Marine recruits and Marines? [rolls eyes]
Overtime I have come to believe that whatever you believe then that is
your religion. And that begs the question why are you pushing your religion on me and threatening to lock me in a dungeon you call a prison, because I disobeyed your religious laws?
So, like with marriage, if you think a man can have 5 wives then that is your religion. If you think a man can have just one husband and not two husbands because "that would just be 'wrong'" then that is in fact
your religion.
Here is an article presented as news story to help indoctrinate American [subjects] with the new religious notions of the secular US Government still bent on persecuting men taking steroids in conjunction with lifting weights. Of course, the secular American Government has successfully convinced Americans that arresting and incarcerating people against US religious laws is not persecution, rather persecution is the audacity to publicly or privately express disbelief in secular government religious laws.
Article:
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/why-im-proud-of-my-transgender-dad-and-the-woman-114773351422.html