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JBoy

(8,021 posts) Wed Jul 26, 2017, 03:42 PM Jul 2017

Meanwhile, in Canada

Tweeted today, after Trump's transgender announcement:

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Meanwhile, in Canada (Original Post) JBoy Jul 2017 OP

I have some history about this OnlinePoker Jul 2017 #1

OnlinePoker

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1. I have some history about this

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Thu Jul 27, 2017, 09:08 AM

Jul 2017

I was the one who kitted up the first serving man transitioning to a woman in the Canadian Forces in Ottawa in 1998 (or 99, I can't remember exactly). I do remember one of the major issues at the time was funding for the change in uniform from male to female because they had already received their entitlement to the uniform years earlier. I'm pretty sure they just absorbed the cost as well as the cost for the surgery, $40k plus at the time.

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