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Conscription into the military is determined by the gender code within an individual's Resident Registration Number (RRN). [5] Transgender women who have not legally changed their RRN will be conscripted into the military to serve as "men". [5] Due to the high cost of surgeries, many trans women cannot be exempt by way of legal gender change.
In 1999, the military paid for her Sex Reassignment Surgery. Sylvia continued to serve and got promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer. When she retired in 2012, after more than 31 years of service, she was the assistant to the Canadian Forces Chief Communications Operator.
In mid-March 2015, a doctor and major in the United States Army Medical Corps named Jamie Lee Henry became the first known active-duty Army officer to come out as transgender, and the first and only active-duty service member who has changed her name and gender within the United States military, to her knowledge and to the knowledge of other ...
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On April 13, 2018, the policy was stayed when a federal district court ruled that the 2018 memorandum essentially repeated the same issues as its predecessor order from 2017, that transgender service members (and transgender individuals as a class) were a protected class entitled to strict scrutiny of adverse laws (or at worst, a quasi-suspect ...
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