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  2. United States partial military ban on intersex people - Wikipedia

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    The (DoDI) 6130.03, 2018, section 5, 13f and 14m is the writing which bars persons with "true hermaphroditism" (ovotesticular disorder of sex development), "pseudohermaphroditism" and "pure gonadal dysgenesis" from serving in the United States Armed Forces.

  3. Transgender personnel in the United States military - Wikipedia

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    The DoD report notes that DoDI 6130.03 provides "baseline accession medical standards" and touts that it "is reviewed every three to four years by the Accession Medical Standards Working Group" but later notes the "standards were consistent with DSM-III" (published in 1980) and that "[d]ue to challenges associated with updating and publishing a ...

  4. United States Military Entrance Processing Command - Wikipedia

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    Effective January 1, 1982, the Assistant Secretary of the Army changed the processing stations' names from Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Stations (AFEES) to MEPS. The command's motto is Freedom's Front Door , signifying that a service member's military career starts when they walk through the doors of the MEPS.

  5. Intersex people in the United States military - Wikipedia

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    In November 1861, during the Civil War, a person named Ellen Burnham was arrested by Union Army detectives and subjected to a medical procedure, but announced as a man to the surprise of Burnham's interrogators. Burham later changed their first name to Edgar, and has been described as "the first person" in U.S. history "to be lawfully married ...

  6. Sexual orientation and gender identity in the United States ...

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    U.S. Sailors gather for cake during a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month observance aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA-7) June 22, 2021, in the Pacific Ocean.

  7. Intersex rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In response, Georgiann Davis argues that such discrimination fails to recognize that many people with intersex traits led full and happy lives, and that the "intersex community is only "invisible" to those who choose to ignore it", while "the medical profession, not the intersex trait itself, is a major source of the social and psychological ...

  8. LGBTQ rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    (DoDI) 6130.03, 2018, section 5, 13f and 14m ... To train the new American Army in the latest military drills ... Virginia had a penalty of 1–10 years for free ...

  9. Intersex medical interventions - Wikipedia

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    Intersex medical interventions (IMI), sometimes known as intersex genital mutilations (IGM), [1] are surgical, hormonal and other medical interventions performed to modify atypical or ambiguous genitalia and other sex characteristics, primarily for the purposes of making a person's appearance more typical and to reduce the likelihood of future problems.