I think this is privilege and unacceptable.
The problem is the forced labor not trans people having something vaguely good happening to them for once
The draft is what’s unacceptable.
Oh are you joining the Thai military?
Protect the dolls
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
Sounds cheap enough for not having to serve for two years
Yea here it is cheap but back there that is almost an entire month’s salary
Understandable. Still a good deal, though.
In my country, there is no official paid leave from draft, but using legal loopholes to avoid it will cost you many, many salaries over.
In Greece they check that you have 2 balls. You can’t serve if you have one only.
Bollocks!
Crawley?
well at least its pretty deterministic
That’s nuts…
nah, nuts implies two (or more!)
What if you have more? You’ve got three balls so we’re promoting you to a higher pay grade.
That’s the benefit of having a uranium buttplug. I grow one extra ball each year. Also it keeps me warm during the winter
Here in brazil they do the same thing
Why do you need the second ball to hold a gun?
Wouldn’t want Hitler serving in the Greek army!
3 or more is fine tho?
Thou shalt not pass two. Four is right out.
Surely the army would conscript them to a cybersecurity red team?
The NSA wishes they could harness that kind of power
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.
military bad, draft bad.
but, yhea, gender discrimination is also bad. not sure if finding roles for them in the system is progress.
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.
I got that part, the “programmer socks”.
Also in military intelligence for that reason. At least if my veteran friends are telling the truth
It’s the classic “is it progress if women are smoking” dilemma.
We have non-binary drone pilots, diversity
or We can have women war criminals, bossgirl feminism.
Don‘t think they have enough striped unix-socks.
The US excludes us too, but it just feels… different.
I think I completely understand this situation and I do not live in Thailand.
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.
“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.
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,
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.
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”
*won’t work But yes, even in “developed” countries it’s a whole process and they might still force you to serve. (I wouldn’t have been able to doge it since I’m too old to transition or whatever, but depression saved me)
Mandatory military service is a slavery.
Only if there are ways out for the elite. Otherwise it’s essentially a defense co-op. If you believe your country is using the military in ethically wrong ways, that’s the actual problem, not the draft.
It has merits in some cases. (Eg living beside a hostile country like N Korea)
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.
Is this because trans peeps are not allowed in the military or because women cannot enlist?
Women can enlist but not be chosen in the draft lottery.
Thailand recognizes trans women as men but can be excused for medical reasons if they have undergone gender reassignment surgery.
Previously the exemption was recognized as mental illness.
Oh I see. Thank you!
Sooo this is a good way to meet sexy singles in my area?
Enlisting in the military has always been an effective means of getting laid from what I hear
I hear it’s more effective to marry someone in the military. You get a ton of action while they’re deployed.
Well fuck, now I know where to go in thailand. Now, just to find when to go.
Now, just to find when to go.
When’s the next draft?
That makes zero sense. Trans women have no balls and lower testosterone than standard men, so they should have lower aggressiveness and calmer decision-making. Also, no women problems and as they can’t get pregnant there is no reason to not use them as soldiers in a war (that’s why women aren’t drafted; they can have babies). But they still have an otherwise male body with a usually heavier frame and stronger muscles.
They have to be the perfect frontline drone operators and snipers.This comment is so disgusting that i guess i will just go to sleep atp
ManyAll of them are gorgeousIt took me 15 seconds to read that explanation and I understand it fully without ever even going there. Terrible answer to the posted question.
I think the assumption is that there is an unspoken “unless it was explained to them”
otherwise that would be the case for like pretty much all answers
