Posted on 02/26/2015 11:56:04 AM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 25, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A draft memorandum uncovered by USA Today suggests that the U.S. Army may soon make it more difficult to discharge soldiers who consider themselves transgender, a move reminiscent of policy changes made during the lead-up to the repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy on homosexuality.
Currently, gender dysphoria – more commonly referred to as “transgenderism” – is considered a psychosexual disorder by the U.S. military and is grounds for being dismissed from service.
While decisions to discharge transgender soldiers are currently made by officers in the field, according to the unsigned memo obtained by USA Today, such decisions will soon have to be approved by a civilian appointed by the president: the assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs.
“The official that would be given authority to decide these cases is, in effect, a political appointee who will impose President Obama's LGBT agenda on military men and women who would be directly affected,” Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, told LifeSiteNews. “By regulation, transgender persons are not eligible for military service, so this administrative order cannot be justified.”
Donnelly said accommodation of transsexuals – which often means permitting biological males to share the restroom, shower and sleeping facilities of females, and vice-versa – could prove not only disruptive, but dangerous in a military setting.
“[R]egulations regarding transgender [soldiers]…should not be disregarded or circumvented as a political payoff to the President's LGBT constituency,” Donnelly told LifeSiteNews. “Even with medical therapy, hormones, and even surgery, a person's biological makeup and DNA remain the same. Accommodating biologically male persons in the private quarters of military women would be inherently disruptive and demoralizing -- consequences that affect military readiness.”
The Army has so far refused to comment on the authenticity of the document obtained by USA Today, but such a move would closely mirror similar actions taken immediately prior to the 2011 repeal of DADT. In 2010, the Pentagon twice increased the difficulty with which military commanders could expel troops who engaged in homosexual activity, first requiring a general or flag officer’s approval, and later requiring approval of the service branch secretary under the guidance of the Department of Defense general counsel and the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, another civilian presidential political appointment.
Donnelly questioned the validity of the proposed rule change, and told LifeSiteNews she believes the Obama administration is engaging in “a replay of the incremental strategy” it used five years ago to forcibly integrate openly practicing homosexuals into the military.
The alleged memo also comes on the heels of a controversial reversal of Armed Forces policy toward Bradley “Chelsea” Manning, a former soldier currently serving a 35-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth military prison for leaking more than 700,000 classified documents. Manning came out as transgender the day after his 2013 sentencing and has mounted a legal crusade to force the Army to transfer him to a women’s prison, call him by female pronouns, allow him to dress as a woman, and pay for a sex change procedure.
The Army initially refused to indulge Manning’s demands, but on February 5 agreed to begin providing hormone treatments at taxpayer expense to begin his “transition” to living as a female.
Some observers have speculated that the decision could set a precedent for future accommodation of active duty transgender troops, should the military drop its ban on their service.
“It would be wrong to expect military health care providers to participate in highly-controversial medical treatments and therapies to alter ‘gender identity,” Donnelly said. “Transgender persons can serve our country in other ways, but they are not eligible to serve in the military.”
Obama intends to completely undermine our national defense.
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AH just come out Obama we all know you are metrosexual or gay LOL!
Personally I think Reggie Love is Boss in this relationship
Obama is bottom b****h
US Military:
Bad eyesight: NO WAY
Hearing loss: YOU ARE OUT
Bum knee: FIND ANOTHER JOB
Too short: NOT ELIGIBLE
Can’t figure out what gender you are: TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE
In anticipation of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, in 2007, the Pentagon prepared a list of new or reinterpreted nomenclature and practices familiar to many older veterans. The gay EM who supplied Wikileaks sent us a copy just before his arrest. Some of the more interesting items are below.
(These are now ALL in full implementation by the Obama maladministration)
All marching commands ending in “March” will now end in either “MINCE” or “SWISH,” at the option of the individual issuing the command;
The command “Dress right, dress” will be replaced with “Dress – or that lovely strapless evening gown – right, dress”
Due to the distinct possibility that it may be misinterpreted, the command “To the Rear March” will be replaced with “OK, Fellas, Turn Around;”
Marching cadences employing “Jodie” will now replace that archaic appellation with the more metro-sexually appropriate “Brucie:”
The humorous but now out-dated phrase “Drop your c**ks and grab your socks” is to be replaced with “Drop your c**ks and grab the fella’s over there;”
A “Junk on the bunk” inspection will now allow a soldier’s “junk” to actually be displayed on his bunk;
If it will not interfere with “his” duties, a “Latrine Queen” may wear a pair of high heel pumps if they are OD in color;
The rank of “Private” will be replaced with “Newby.”
“Short Arms Inspections” are no longer allowed unless at least 10” in length.
For those still smoking, as it could lead to serious unit cohesion break-down, the phrase “Field strip that butt” will no longer be used.
As we did deeper into the documents we were provided, we will add other changes.
PS: A bonus INVESTMENT TIP: Buy shares in firms that manufacture SOAP-ON-A-ROPE! There is certain to be a run on them at BXs and PXs everywhere.
yes he does. He will eliminate all our nukes if he hasn’t done so by 2016.
Of course. The best way to destroy our moral Christian military (the best in all of history and the most moral) is to promote vice and dysfunction (Machiavelli).
He needs jackboots who will mutilate and kill their own citizens, even women and children, like the homosexual SS troops and the homosexual Bolsheviks and Russian atheist armies-—truly immoral and inhumane.
all this idiot knows and cares about is homosexuals, cross dressers and changing the country into a white Euro minority.
If a guy thinks he is a woman then he needs mental help, end of.
If a guy is wanting sex with another guy then he is mentally sick, end of.
That goes for women too and those who think they are married.
Look, it’s just this simple. An absolute monarch has absolute power, and can govern as he wishes. In Roman days, “decrees” were used. Today, it’s “executive orders” and the like.
In both cases - the Roman Empire and today - the Senate serves as a debating society only...and not as any check to the tyrant.
Obama has gone full dictator now. I have never been more ashamed of my country.
“Colonel Potter sir; Corporal Klinger! I’m section 8, head to toe. I’m wearing a Warner bra, I play with dolls, and my last wish is to be buried in my mother’s wedding gown. I’m nuts! I should be out!”
THAT JENKUM HUFFING COKEHEAD NEEDS IMPEACHED NOW!!! Everything he does is set to destroy this country. And with these stupid actions it will cost dearly in blood. ISIS, Nuked up Iran, control of the internet, a new stream of illegal alien uneducated democrat voters is going to end terribly. Of course that’s what Obama wants. I have always believed he has the same blood lust in his heart as hitler and Stalin and if it weren’t for our guns he would no doubt try. His political advisor called for as much. Ayers wasn’t just a “guy in the neighborhood.”
who is Obama’s point man at the Pentagon? I suspect it is much like the old USSR when there was a political commissar in every military, government and civilian organization. The commissar kept them in line and made the leaders kowtow to Moscow.
Hell, Obama is worse. Hitler and Stalin both wanted to make their respective countries stronger and were willing to destroy any nation that stood in their way. Obama is the exact opposite, he wants America to be weak.
world falling apart, people having heads chopped off and burned alive. Iran on the verge to get nuclear weapons.
Economy in bits and all this idiot cares about is cross dressing and homosexuality.
Laws being ignored like drug laws and immigration, laws like DOMA never defended. Laws being made up as he goes along.
The media being just as corrupt as usual, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc covering for Hillary and their messiah. FOX not calling out bozo half the time and how about some tough questions for this idiot while Biden gets away with yet more racism, just because it is Biden.
He firmly believes that we are at fault for the world and if we are nicer which we have been then all will be forgiven which is pure crap.
If he could give away more money to these third would countries and tax us more to support them then he would.
Good point... and even in today's US, it's not just the military. They are everywhere, and many have Civil Service tenure protection, making them difficult to weed out.
Think of how Japan would be today if we had been "nicer" to them, instead of leaving Japan a pile of rubble we spent billions to turn them into a major economic and industrial power. Look at what the Marshall Plan did for Western Europe compared to how Eastern Europe fared under the Soviets.
The key to peace and prosperity for ANY NATION on earth the for the past seventy years has been to be on the best possible terms with the United States and anyone with a brain should be able to figure that out.
The president of the United States does not circumvent the military. He is the CIC, wtf does he have to circumvent?
What could possibly go wrong with training mentally ill people to use complicated, expensive and destructive weaponry?
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