I had to laugh at this news report.
Spanish soldiers are changing their gender from male to female to earn certain benefits only available to females, including higher pay and better sleeping quarters, due to a self-identification law aimed at helping transgender people.
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A majority of the now-female soldiers have kept every other aspect of life, including male genitalia, sexuality, and even facial hair.
“On the outside, I feel like a heterosexual man, but on the inside, I am a lesbian,” Army Corporal Roberto Perdigones told Spanish newspaper El Español. “And it is the latter that counts. This is why I made the legal change to become a woman.”
Perdigones says he was encouraged to change his gender because of “positive discrimination” and has since received a 15 percent salary increase.
“For changing my gender, I have been told that my pension has gone up because women get more to compensate for inequality. I also get 15 percent more salary for being a mother,” he added.
The soldier is looking to use his additional privilege as a woman to sue for shared custody of his 16-year-old son, assuming the courts will give him a better chance.
Perdigones changed his gender last year, and when he arrived at the barracks in Ceuta, he did so with hair too long to meet the male requirements and earrings, which the Spanish military prohibits men from wearing.
The army corporal was even given a personal bathroom because he wasn’t comfortable with sharing with either biological gender.
“I even have a private room in the barracks, all to myself, with a private bathroom. This is because I cannot be with men as I am a woman, and I did not consider it appropriate to be with biological women out of respect for them,” Perdigones said.
There's more at the link.
Boy, talk about working the system! I'm sure Corporal Perdigones was (and still is) laughing all the way to the bank. It just goes to show: if the system provides profitable loopholes, some people will exploit them for all they're worth.
Now, let's try that with a US Marine Corps corporal, telling his Gunnery Sergeant DI that he's now a woman - and a lesbian. I have this mental picture of the Gunny's head exploding . . . and another of the unfortunate corporal doubling multiple times around the perimeter of the entire base wearing makeup and jewelry, with his (sorry - her!) rifle held above their head, chanting - and panting - "I'm whatever the Marine Corps says I am!"
Peter
I'm afraid that your opinion of today's Marines may be out dated.
ReplyDeleteLike the line in the movie says "If you build it, they will come."
ReplyDeleteCorporal Klinger was supposed to be a joke, people, not a role model.
ReplyDeleteDon't kid yourself. I'm sure the SSgt would help initiate the paperwork...
ReplyDeleteGaming the system(s) is a military tradition!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteApparently the New York Post no longer employs editors:
ReplyDelete"...sharing with either biological gender."
There's no such things 'biological gender. There are two biological sexes, and there's gender, which properly describes parts of speech (but which lunatics use to describe sexes).
--Tennessee Budd
According to a Spaniard I know, Spain is in the grip of ultra rabid feminists, who have passed law after law defining males as inherently guilty of everything. But it's also so woke that you can "Transition" legally with no stronger requirement than being able to fill out the form. And that saves you from automatic Jail and sentencing enhancements that Males get, among other things.
ReplyDeleteOn one of my FB Seabee pages they have a pic of a guy from NMCB 3 getting some award.
ReplyDeleteHe's got hair to the collar and earings.
The comments have not been supportive.
Corporal = E-4
ReplyDeleteTHE GODS OF THE E-4 MAFIA WILL NOT BE DENIED!!!!
(it's a US Army thing Peter... google it and 'sham shield')
As a Marine Private has famously said, "Suh Prise, Suh Prise, Suh Prise!"
ReplyDeleteThe first time I heard someone comment "we are doomed", I laughed, thought it was a joke.
ReplyDeleteNot any more.
"There's no such things 'biological gender. There are two biological sexes, and there's gender, which properly describes parts of speech (but which lunatics use to describe sexes).
ReplyDelete--Tennessee Budd"
This is simply untrue.
In the English language, "gender" has been synonymous with biological sex for the last 500 years. Even the gender ideology lunatics know that gender is about more than parts of speech.