Posted on 07/26/2017 10:39:55 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Multiple Republican senators broke with President Trump on Wednesday after he announced on Twitter than transgender troops would be banned from serving in the military.
In separate statements, GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Richard Shelby (Ala.), and Orrin Hatch (Utah) all criticized Trump for his decision that Obama-era rules allowing transgender troops to serve would be reversed.
McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, ripped the call and said that Trump shouldn't be making policy announcements via tweet.
“The President’s tweet this morning regarding transgender Americans in the military is yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter," McCain wrote in his statement.
“The statement was unclear," he added. "The Department of Defense has already decided to allow currently-serving transgender individuals to stay in the military, and many are serving honorably today. Any American who meets current medical and readiness standards should be allowed to continue serving."
"There is no reason to force service members who are able to fight, train, and deploy to leave the military — regardless of their gender identity."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Ditto that...........
McCain back from the hospital just in time to make us pay for elective genital surgery. Thanks, John.
I break with those GOP senators.
Primary anyone?
5.56mm
So you have male who is transgendered to female and you want the military to treat them by their real sex. So the transgendered male with breasts and an artificial vagina should shower with the males?
Hey McCain, just retire quietly and STHU. you are not the CinC in spite of what you might think.
And having to constantly shoot up with hormones and “dilate” a fake vagina multiple times a day (yes, they do) aren’t conducive to readiness.
I wish I could say I voted for my last Republican candidate ever but I already did. GOP can go to hell.
Sure let’s not control the military, immigration or anything else, let the courts and Congress fight the wars.
Yes, President Trump has that power.
Harry Truman issued Executive Order to Desegregate US Military.
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
In 1940 the U.S. population was about 131 million, 12.6 million of which was African American, or about 10 percent of the total population. During World War II, the Army had become the nation’s largest minority employer. Of the 2.5 million African Americans males who registered for the draft through December 31, 1945, more than one million were inducted into the armed forces. African Americans, who constituted approximately 11 per cent of all registrants liable for service, furnished approximately this proportion of the inductees in all branches of the service except the Marine Corps. Along with thousands of black women, these inductees served in all branches of service and in all Theaters of Operations during World War II.
During World War II, President Roosevelt had responded to complaints about discrimination at home against African Americans by issuing Executive Order 8802 in June 1941, directing that blacks be accepted into job-training programs in defense plants, forbidding discrimination by defense contractors, and establishing a Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC).
After the war, President Harry Truman, Roosevelt’s successor, faced a multitude of problems and allowed Congress to terminate the FEPC. However, in December 1946, Truman appointed a distinguished panel to serve as the President’s Commission on Civil Rights, which recommended “more adequate means and procedures for the protection of the civil rights of the people of the United States.” When the commission issued its report, “To Secure These Rights,” in October 1947, among its proposals were anti-lynching and anti-poll tax laws, a permanent FEPC, and strengthening the civil rights division of the Department of Justice.
In February 1948 President Truman called on Congress to enact all of these recommendations. When Southern Senators immediately threatened a filibuster, Truman moved ahead on civil rights by using his executive powers. Among other things, Truman bolstered the civil rights division, appointed the first African American judge to the Federal bench, named several other African Americans to high-ranking administration positions, and most important, on July 26, 1948, he issued an executive order abolishing segregation in the armed forces and ordering full integration of all the services. Executive Order 9981 stated that “there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed forces without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.” The order also established an advisory committee to examine the rules, practices, and procedures of the armed services and recommend ways to make desegregation a reality. There was considerable resistance to the executive order from the military, but by the end of the Korean conflict, almost all the military was integrated.
Fine, trannies. Sign a waiver that you won’t force the military to pay for your hormone therapies and conversion surgeries. Let’s face it. This is what your enlistment is really about; not patriotism.
I believe she road to office on the TEA Party tide, even. That makes her treachery double galling.
Btw McCain can and will drop dead.
That is what he is doing here (with Mattis' help).
GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Richard Shelby (Ala.), and Orrin Hatch (Utah)
Up for reelection
John McCain 2022
Joni Ernst 2020
Richard Shelby 2022
Orrin Hatch 2018
So all these politicians don’t have to worry about reelection except Orrin Hatch. What a bunch of phonies.
Just one of several back stabbings by her.
McCain again ? Senate Armed Services Committee is this why McCain stays ,for the POWER
It’s nice that they’re self identifying....
POTUS is the Commander in Chief of the military, i.e. the leader, top dog etc... if he says wear flip flops into combat that’s an order. He doesn’t “defer to the military”, especially since the military people making these decisions are making them from a political expediency standpoint rather than for military effectiveness.
Hatch is 83. Having served for 40 years, 202 days, Hatch is the longest-serving Republican Senator in U.S. history. Time for him to go regardless.
most who claim to be transgendered only do hormone treatment and some never do anything but make the claim.....I have no problem with a guy that feels he should be a she....but if they want to live as anything other then a guy and do any of the medical treatments they are in the wrong place.
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