US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has previously expressed opposition to women serving in combat, has ordered the military to develop gender-neutral physical fitness standards for frontline troops, a memo released Monday said.

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      4 months ago

      He’ll, if the requirements were gender neutral, then every astronaut would be a woman based on weight alone.

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        Even biologically, men are woman if the anti-muellerian hormone is not surpressed during the fetal development.(Usually happens if the gene in males is missing or suppressed that)

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        Well, yeah. Any uterus on the battlefield is one that isn’t back home gestating the next generation of cannon fodder.

        (It’s despicable, but I’m pretty sure that’s how these shit stains actually think.)

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      What endurance events are women better at?

      Also, I was curious about the g-force thing, but any scientific studies I could find had conclusions that there aren’t any significant differences between men and women when it comes to withstanding g-forces.