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The military is a heirarchal organization. Having individual expression in it opens the door to like doubting the mission. I actually think it would be funnier if the military just banned gender entirely: "the military has one gender and its pronouns are They/Them"
They don't even need "they/them" when they have ranks.
My gender is "Sergeant"
And job based, Nobody is stopping to question why a woman is answering the radio when they need fire support. At that moment her gender is 50-100 meters of death on demand.
Wait till the conservatives find out about Privates
You joke but, "My name is Drill Sergeant, My pronoun is Drill Sergeant, My descriptor in any way coming out of your mouth is Drill Sergeant, Do you understand recruit?" has definitely been said. And the whole gender blindness thing has been tried to varying success rates. "We don't have men and women, we have Soldiers"
The problem comes with actual regulatory and medically required differences. For example they aren't issuing men tampons and women are required to have a separate bathroom or latrine trench. So officially banning sex isn't possible. But half of the force does not have the education or willingness to recognize the difference between sex and gender. (Some really are barely high school graduates of bad school systems and others are just idiot conservatives) It doesn't really matter why they won't recognize the difference when all of the protections for women are dropped in some units.
To be honest, with the exception of sexual assault the military does pretty well trying to integrate women. And that may be improving, we've had high level, outside the chain of command, flag officers, reporting directly to the service secretary SA investigations for less than a year. (Dec 2023) So we'll see where the data goes with that.