The Major-General of the Medical Service attempted to change that in 2003 when he announced that under a new statute, homosexuality would not be a justification for exclusion from military service: "The issue of a person's homosexuality is not medical.
2003年，醫療服務的主管試圖改變這一狀況，他聲明在新規下，同性戀不再是一個免除兵役的合法理由：「一個人的同性戀問題不是醫學的（問題）。