I think it was the writer Jessica Gavora who pointed out that there wasn’t enough content to publish more than 10 issues a year of the women’s edition of Sports Illustrated and wasn’t enough of a market to make that publication viable in a span of years when print magazines were still profitable and the regular edition published 50x a year.

Which could be done by a woman’s auxilliary, which is what we had prior to 1972. Even with gender-norming performance scores, the diversicrats in the military could hardly push the female share into double digits. A lady Marine of my acquaintance (who left the service in 1992 some years ‘ere I met her) admitted to me that without the gender-norming the female % in the military would sink like a stone. None of this is being done to fulfill the military’s institutional mission, but rather to use the military for ‘social experimentation’. Our useless Republican politicians did not end this when they had the opportunity. In fact, the decay of West Point as an institution was on their watch.

My guess is–in comparison to young men–not very many.

In a country of almost 330 million probably a couple handfuls, only a few hundred, or–at most–perhaps a thousand or two.

From a practical perspective, so long as the military does not lower their standards to accommodate women, I don’t have any difficulties with it. In any case, the military has a LOT of non-combat jobs that need to be done. I still would not want to see women forced into combat situations against their will.

Today,from CDC:

Measured average height, weight, and waist circumference for adults aged 20 and over
•Men:
•Height in inches: 69.2
•Weight in pounds: 195.7
•Waist circumference in inches: 40.0*  (101.5 centimeters)

•Women:
•Height in inches: 63.7
•Weight in pounds: 168.5
•Waist circumference in inches: 38.1* (96.9 centimeters)

*Unpublished figure. Derived from converting published figures listed in centimeters to inches.

Yes, I know, the today’s average woman is still not as strong as the average WW2 soldier, sailor, marine or aviator.

The story here is the same as in other places – political meddling, pressure to lower standards and misreport actual performance, and reduced battle-readiness.

A report on a mixed infantry unit showed conclusively that the presence of females weakened cohesion and led to male soldiers protecting women in addition to their own duties. The report was thrown down the memory hole and a “correct” report was ordered up.

Another angle here is the use of this issue to counter the dominance of religiously traditional, politically conservative fighters in elite units. Basically, people more similar to West Bank settlers have replaced the socialist sons of the kibbutz as the ideological arrowhead of the army. The Left – having produced a generation of decadent pacifists – are desparate to preserve this power base. So they are using this issue as a wedge: close quartering of coed units is objectionable to young men from yeshiva (seminarians) and many orthodox/traditional jews.

This is glaringly obvious since the Left has constantly used the army to indocrintate conscripts and turn them against religion – and glaringly hypocritical because they have constantly stirred up political resentments towards religious jews who refused to submit and serve. Now that the religious are serving – and excelling – they start talking “diversity”. About face!

And as with other “empowerment” schemes the result is worse for many of these young women. The army is a place where rank confers lots of power over subordinates. When i first moved here the Left was hamstringing our defense by championing the many women subjected to harassment during their service… Now they’ve decided it serves their agenda to celebrate women in the army …. About face!

Like many others, you have bought into the idea that there is such a thing as “transgender”. There is no there there. Except in extreme circumstances, like an invasion, females don’t belong in combat. Women and children first is the rule for valid reasons.

Caveat: there are always people in the long tail of the “crazy” distribution, and some women have the strength & psyche to do some of the combat jobs — but om is correct that the standards are now at the level that satisfies SJW quotas, not military excellence.

Maybe President Trump has it backward (per the next post): ONLY enroll transgender M to F, who DO still have the male physique advantage (if they pass a genuine psychology test, of course).