Germany's new laws on trans identity specifically condemn men to be drafted.
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Fuck drafting.
That said, in the case where it's legit necessary (which... has there ever been?), that's an absolutely reasonable stance to take. Or they could, you know, not make gender a drafting barrier.
The only useful thing the average woman can do in a military is help keep morale up, and that's usually a counter-productive effort because all it takes is one schizophrenic whore to divorce-rape a man into suicide, and now the morale of an entire company is shattered.
Women can't ruck, can't lift, can't carry, can't set up or tear down camp, can't deal with adverse conditions, and attempting to do so produces lifelong injury almost universally within the first enlistment.
The few who can hang with even a sub-par man don't make up for the fact that every thing their comradettes in arms can't do must instead become a secondary responsibility of a man in the unit, because they still need to eat, still need to sleep, and still need to .
Two men may march 80 kilos of gear over twenty kilometers by splitting it 40/40, but if you want a man and a woman to make it to the end at the same time, you're going to have to split it 65/15, and after two years the woman's going to be on light duty indefinitely until the end of her enlistment.
Women shouldn't be in combat units but there are lots of support and administrative positions that women can be perfectly adequate at. Conscript Sue Jones can go do HR paperwork in the S1 shop freeing Corporal John Smith to go pick up a rifle and fight the war.
In fact, stuff like that is what most American conscripts did in the Vietnam War era. People here ought to know better but the common trope of Joe Schmoe being drafted into the Army and then being immediately sent to Nam is nothing but leftist horseshit. The vast majority of draftees ended up performing menial labor stateside and then the volunteer enlistees would be assigned combat roles.
Not when the existence of Sue creates more paperwork than she eliminates.