Posted on 11/11/2017 12:31:16 PM PST by Salman
STORKOW, Germany — On July 26, when President Trump unexpectedly tweeted his plans to ban transgender servicemen and women from the U.S. military, Anastasia Biefang was more than 4,000 miles away from Washington. Still, she could not hide her shock.
“It felt like a smack in the face,” said the 43-year-old German army officer, who is the first transgender person to command a military unit in the country's history.
Biefang joined the German army as a man more than 23 years ago. Two years ago, despite fearing negative repercussions for her career, she came out to her superiors and eventually to her entire unit. Her decision to transition from male to female coincided with an unprecedented openness among top military officials in Germany, the United States and other countries to having transgender troops serve openly.
Since then, the United States and Germany have taken dramatically different turns ...
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Trump is seemingly not part of the story, but Trump makes it news at least in the USA. Always gotta be a Trump, hook, right?
Not that Trump tries to tell the Germans how to staff their military or who to promote, but that's not the point. All stories are Trump stories now.
Meanwhile, congrats Anastasia. Deutschland über alles! /sarc
Fake international news from Germany!
SICK!
This ENTIRE “Trans” thingie is FRicking SICK!
These are some REALLY SICK people!
PRESIDENT TRUMP shaming article.
I blame David Hasselhoff
He seemed pretty fruity.
Let's just pretend I posted it. Use your imagination.
Washington Post ?
Somewhere Heinz Guderian is crying.
He is in a crying choir!
The left’s worship of mental illness disgusts me, but it does not surprise me.
You even caught him in the "Kevin Spacey" position of authoritai.
I knew a FR hero would emerge.
And that's somehow a bad thing?
Biefang joined the German army as a man more than 23 years ago. Two years ago, despite fearing negative repercussions for her career, she came out to her superiors and eventually to her entire unit. Her decision to transition from male to female coincided with an unprecedented openness among top military officials in Germany, the United States and other countries to having transgender troops serve openly.
I guess this is why some people want new pronouns.
Because whatever you can say about the guy, he's not really a "she" is he/zie/ze/xe/ey/thon/hu/vey/hesh?
Truth.
My pleasure, bagster.
If someone can’t deal with “living in the wrong body”, they can’t deal with leading troops.
This guy would know what to do!
It looks like a man to me.
Deuteronomy 23:1 “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.”
http://biblereasons.com/homosexuality/
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