In the popular “M.A.S.H.” sitcom that ran from 1972 until 1983, Corporal Maxwell Klinger was so desperate to escape his assignment to a mobile army surgical hospital in the Korean War, he dressed as a woman in an attempt to prove he was mentally unfit to serve.
At the time, it was accepted that people who suffered from what is now called “gender dysphoria” weren’t suited for military duty.
But in today’s military, Klinger, as he was known, would be considered “transgender” or “gender-nonconforming” and would be accepted openly without fear of dismissal.
That’s been the case for pediatrician Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman. Levine was named in 2021 as President Joe Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services….