Kinda tempted to send him an email all, "Hi Mr. Navy Guy, I'm the trans who asked you how to get a job with the navy and you said I had to be done transitioning, which to me sounded weird since that's a lifelong process? And also, if you're talking hormones, I started them seven months ago, is that what you meant? If I need to get GCS, they won't even consider me until next January. And ironically, I cannot afford such a surgery without money and health insurance, which is what I hear you can get from the Navy.

You ever read catch 22? I tried, but I put it down to read Murakami, and then I realized from murakami I had gender dysphoria..."