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U.S. Set to Lift Ban on Openly Transgender Troops (July 1)
Time Magazine ^ | 6:29 PM ET | Katy Steinmetz

Posted on 06/24/2016 4:35:20 PM PDT by drewh

The Defense Department has been reviewing the policy for nearly a year

Nearly a year ago, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the U.S. military’s ban on the open service of transgender troops was “outdated” and promised the policy would be reviewed. Advocacy groups had grown impatient in the early months of this year, but a report late Friday indicates their wait is almost over.

USA Today, citing an unnamed Department of Defense official, reports the ban will end on July 1 and that Pentagon officials are gathering to finalize the details in the coming days. Individual branches of the armed services would have a year to implement new policies. A study commissioned by the Department of Defense and conducted by the RAND Corporation found that there “would be few hurdles to allowing transgender people to serve openly,” the New York Times recently reported.

Estimates of how many active duty military members identify as transgender are wide-ranging educated guesses, given that this is not information that the federal government collects. The RAND study estimated that only about 2,500 of the 1.2 million active duty members are transgender, while a study by UCLA’s Williams Institute estimated the number to be 15,500, in addition to 134,300 veterans.

Advocacy groups reacted to the news on Friday with approval. “This final remnant of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will now be put to rest. This decision is a great victory for the many trans people who have served and sacrificed in the military over the years,” the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán said in a statement. “They also served in fear of being discharged from the service for simply being who they are. Thankfully this now will change.”

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KEYWORDS: barackobama; dod; homosexualagenda; military; obama; transgender
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1 posted on 06/24/2016 4:35:20 PM PDT by drewh
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In about a 100 yrs from now historians will look back and point to the obama regime as the end of the US.


2 posted on 06/24/2016 4:37:30 PM PDT by ealgeone
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3 posted on 06/24/2016 4:39:10 PM PDT by drewh
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Muslim historians, sifting through the ruins.


4 posted on 06/24/2016 4:39:54 PM PDT by madprof98
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As long as they are frontline infantry no problem...


5 posted on 06/24/2016 4:39:56 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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How can a man be "all that he can be" if he is taking estrogen and thinking about plastic surgery, breast implants, etc.?

So the military spends thousands of dollars to train up a soldier to tote heavy weights over long distances in inclement weather and then shoot at a target with great accuracy. Then they allow this soldier to start a regimen which will decrease his physical aptitude.

How stupid and wrongheaded is that?

6 posted on 06/24/2016 4:40:07 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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So what is the lesbian on the left doing hanging out with trannies?


7 posted on 06/24/2016 4:41:10 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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8 posted on 06/24/2016 4:42:55 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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I will not serve ever in fedgov army.

They are the occupying roman army. I will be with the patriot militias and cell groups.


9 posted on 06/24/2016 4:43:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Another big FU, right in our faces, at point blank range to a major national holiday.
 
 

10 posted on 06/24/2016 4:43:36 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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those four don’t look like front line troops...they look like human relations compliance officers


11 posted on 06/24/2016 4:43:59 PM PDT by drewh
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LOL!


12 posted on 06/24/2016 4:44:06 PM PDT by ealgeone
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Bflr


13 posted on 06/24/2016 4:44:11 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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Dykes on Hikes.


14 posted on 06/24/2016 4:44:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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15 posted on 06/24/2016 4:45:53 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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The Navy pervs will be friggin’ in the riggin’


16 posted on 06/24/2016 4:45:53 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If liberals were in charge of the oceans, in 5 years the water would be gone.)
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the details in the coming days. Individual branches of the armed services would have a year to implement new policies.

...pretty high on TRUMP's to trash list

17 posted on 06/24/2016 4:47:34 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Who are they?


18 posted on 06/24/2016 4:47:43 PM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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Oh, what a disgrace.


19 posted on 06/24/2016 4:48:51 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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Is that Bruce Jenner? Such lost, sad eyes.


20 posted on 06/24/2016 4:51:00 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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