Be careful what you ask for; you might just get it!
In USC law all able-bodied men 17-45 are a member of the unorganized militia whether they know it or not, it’s the law. This same law was changed in the 1950’s to include all females that have served in the organized armed forces.
She has no standing in current USC law.
If I was a a young lady, I’d sock this lady because she is kicking a hornet’s nest. It is better just to leave it be. Why must people become agitators?
My daughters will not be registering, regardless of any court ruling.
Why do we even need a selective service? We haven’t used the draft since Viet Nam, and there’s a zillion ways for the guvmint to track people. It’s another bloated, useless bureaucracy.
I believe that, in general, current members of the military do not want a draft. We join the military because we want to serve, and we don’t want to work with people who are only there because they have to be.
What is preventing this girl from running down to the nearest recruiter and enlisting? At the age of 17, she has the right to do so, as long as one of her parents signs for her.
In the new age of anything goes, could not she go the “self identified” route? Likewise, what’s to stop any 18 year-old male refusing to register based on “self identification” of something other than male?
I don’t know why anyone who would support voluntary military service by women would be opposed to selective service registration by women. During the WWII draft, conscientious objectors were drafted into non-combat roles, such as corps men. During Vietnam, conscripts were spread throughout the military, including service in Europe, and we’re not sent exclusively to the front lines in Southeast Asia. Conscription does not equal combat service.
The fact the DoD has not figured out the selective service registration of women post full inclusion of women in combat roles (which per SCOTUS was the only supportable justification to disallow it), and now is focused on integrating transgenders just show how lost out Pentagon leadership truly is.
I have always thought it was unfair to mandate the inclusion of women in the service academies, but not in the draft. It should always have been an all-skate.
I always wondered about that.
Just what is Twitsey’s point other than being an attention whore? Why not just enlist. Nothing is stopping her.
the next thing you know amazon wannabe’s will be wanting to play with all the queers in the NFL
I want to see a lawsuit over a “transgender” individual not registering with selective service when he/she/it turns 18.
Since “gender” is a “construct and a continuum”, then the 18 year old who identifies as a man must register, and when he/she/it identifies as a woman he/she/it doesn’t have to register. But if he/she/it changes his/her/its identification back to man, he/she/it must register again.
The country has descended into terminal insanity.
No problem, sweetie! Just get an addadicktome*, change your name to Butch, and sign up!
*Rush’s name for a F to M sex change operation.
In the majority opinion, Justice William Rehnquist wrote "[t]he existence of the combat restrictions clearly indicates the basis for Congress' decision to exempt women from registration. The purpose of registration was to prepare for a draft of combat troops. Since women are excluded from combat, Congress concluded that they would not be needed in the event of a draft, and therefore decided not to register them."If women are now included in combat roles, then the entire basis for the ruling is nullified.