The thing is such a man would be turned into an object of ridicule in the army and he won’t make there nine months,» the Lithuanian psychiatrist says.
Deviations of psycho-behavior are not the orientation itself, albeit others do think so. Though they say that there is no illness (with the orientation), but it is, as a matter of fact. «If the results appear to be positive, I just let them (men with likely homosexual orientation) go. Evryone’s human, that’s what matters to me,» he said.Īsked by Klaipeda.lt daily whether the test is part of the medical quest to find out the conscript’s sexual orientation, Kestutis, Ramanauskas, a seasoned psychiatrist in Klaipeda conscripts’ precinct, agreed that the test is part of thescreening. Giedrius, also a to-be conscript, was one among the few who said he does not see «a difference» between the orientations, saying, «I don’t see any difference. Lukas, a stocky young man, suggested in front of Lrytas.lt cameras that even if a fellow gay serviceman did not harass him in the barracks, he would feel, nevertheless, calmer on the bunk if all the men around him were straight. All normal men are ready to stand up for Lithuania, and they (bleep)….I don’t know, I don’t want to end up in such a situation,» voiced his opinion on the incandescent issue another pal. Would you yourself want to be among them and get conscripted together, dine sitting next to each other in the canteen? Personally, I don’t.
Obviously all will reply negatively,» grinned Edvardas, a young conscript, asked by a Lrytas TV reporter. Like this one whether I ever thought being a woman. Lithuanian LGBT has called the screening «discriminatory» while the idea of standing next to a gay serviceman in the line triggers emotions ranging from nausea to single-conscripts’ reasoning that sexual orientation does not matter when it comes to defending the Motherland. Is that the way to sort out «machos» and «sissies»? Military mental health specialists use slightly different, more sophisticated language speaking of the test, suggesting that it is part of the examination to detect more effeminate conscripts, possibly with homosexual inclinations, who might be subject to bullying and harassing during the service, therefore they have to be dismissed from the draft. Some of the guys call the questionnaire with contempt «stupid», others laugh off the queries. Have you ever thought of having been born as a girl? Do you like flowers? Do you like poesy? The questions are part of the military psychological test Lithuanian conscripts have to take before being ruled by the doctors if they are fit for the barracks.