Joint Services Gay Conference Highlights Progress Within Military
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Joint Services Gay Conference Highlights Progress Within Military
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Me dear ? Gay dear ? How very, very dare you !
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'The keynote speech came from Camp Bastion.....Lieutenant Bastion highlighted issues ranging from JSP 317 (Joint Service Safety Regulations for the storage and handling of lubricants) to Defence Packing running a number of training courses in the various aspects of Military packing'
And there I was thinking that they would be talking about carpet cleaning and playing the Oboe.
And there I was thinking that they would be talking about carpet cleaning and playing the Oboe.
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Assuming a genuine question, the answer is yes, though I have not seen it on any of the patches I have been living. They are no longer called MQs (and haven't been for some years now), instead they are called Families' Quarters (FQs).
I suppose it's a measure of progress that the main issues raised in relation to this change were the poor initial attempts at defining what was meant by a 'long-term relationship' (this was in the days before Civil Partnerships), and whether the same qualifying standards would be applied to non-married heterosexuals. I believe they do, but again, I have no personal experience.
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Assuming a genuine question, the answer is yes, though I have not seen it on any of the patches I have been living. They are no longer called MQs (and haven't been for some years now), instead they are called Families' Quarters (FQs).
I suppose it's a measure of progress that the main issues raised in relation to this change were the poor initial attempts at defining what was meant by a 'long-term relationship' (this was in the days before Civil Partnerships), and whether the same qualifying standards would be applied to non-married heterosexuals. I believe they do, but again, I have no personal experience.
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Under what denomination do you class the guy who decides to elect for gender change and once re configured into womenhood decides "she" no longer likes guys but fancies women 
Lesbian............Hetro..............or seriously fecked up
Lesbian............Hetro..............or seriously fecked up
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Slight thread creep. ISTR that they stopped being called 'MQ's after a female SNCO at a sleepy CHQ just outside Huntingdon had twins out of wedlock and took the RAF/MOD to court for discrimination when she was refused a quarter. Despite strong representations by RAF/MOD that the quarters were for formally married, i.e. heterosexual, couples, she won her case nevertheless.
Slight thread creep. ISTR that they stopped being called 'MQ's after a female SNCO at a sleepy CHQ just outside Huntingdon had twins out of wedlock and took the RAF/MOD to court for discrimination when she was refused a quarter. Despite strong representations by RAF/MOD that the quarters were for formally married, i.e. heterosexual, couples, she won her case nevertheless.
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Given that the RAF is now utterly diverse in its recognition of all genders and preferences, it is rumoured that in line with Married Quarters MQs for the straights, Families Quarters FQs for the gays/unmarried; Cottesmore is having a multi-million £ development of W**kers Quarters WQs for the Harrier force (as part of a joint Gov't/Kleenex PFI)
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SFFP - You may be forgiven, it took me a while to get my head around (fnarr,fnarr for the Jurassic Park denizens who are coming out of the woodwork) a transgender friend.
Orientation and gender are 2 distinct attributes. A straight chap who has gender reassignment therapy will quite often become a lesbian, i.e. she still fancies women. Likewise (and much more rarely), if he was gay before the Op, she will be straight post-op. It's quite simple really.
Orientation and gender are 2 distinct attributes. A straight chap who has gender reassignment therapy will quite often become a lesbian, i.e. she still fancies women. Likewise (and much more rarely), if he was gay before the Op, she will be straight post-op. It's quite simple really.
In this era of lack of kit, lack of personnel, lack of SH, lack of AT, more and more commitments.... it's good to see that the MOD can find the time and money to waste on sh!t like this.