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Transgender soldiers may get time off to have sex-change operations after military ban dropped
LifeSiteNews ^ | 8/28/15 | Drew Belsky

Posted on 08/28/2015 4:18:40 PM PDT by wagglebee

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 28, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Transgender people who want to join the military while presenting themselves as members of the opposite sex – and possibly receiving taxpayer-subsidized sex-change operations – may do so starting next May.

According to a draft timeline recently circulated among top Department of Defense (DoD) personnel, the ban on "openly" transgender soldiers will be lifted on May 27, 2016.

The DoD is considering a pilot program to let soldiers take a sabbatical from active service in order to "make their transition" – that is to say, procure hormone drugs or genital reconstruction surgery in order to appear more like a member of the opposite sex.

Some reports claim that the implementation of transgender accommodations has incurred little to no opposition in the military. However, several current and former service members have indeed expressed concern over the change.

In March, the AP reported reservations among top military brass regarding the new transgender policy. The officials agreed to express themselves only on the condition of anonymity, "because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly."

Questions included where to house transgender soldiers, what uniforms these soldiers should wear, and what bathrooms they should use.

Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin (ret.), now the executive vice president of the Family Research Council (FRC), issued a statement in July blasting what he called "social re-engineering" under President Barack Obama.

"Before changing any policy," Boykin wrote, "the impact on military readiness has to be the first consideration. The Pentagon must answer whether this proposed policy makes our military more capable of performing its mission. The answer is a very clear and resounding no."

"Allowing the Obama administration to use the military as a tool of social re-engineering will only undermine morale, unit cohesion, and readiness," Boykin concluded.

Like Lt. Gen. Boykin, the anonymous service members also worried about the policy's effect on unit cohesion and morale – the latter of which is reportedly at "rock bottom."

FRC president Tony Perkins found the military officials' reluctance to speak publicly unsurprising. Perkins cited three service members jettisoned for expressing faith-based opinions, deducing that military personnel opposed to the transgender policy are ”worried it could cost them their careers."

In addition to the practical concerns expressed by the anonymous service members, Perkins highlighted transgender soldiers' "instability."

"Let's not forget – transsexualism is at its root a serious mental disorder - one classified as such by the military's own Defense Department!" Perkins wrote. "If these men and women are confused about their gender, what's to keep them from being confused about their mission?"

On the other end of the spectrum, David Stacy, who directs government affairs at the homosexual activist Human Rights Campaign, likened the institution of the new transgender policy to the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2011. "There were no signs of problems with unit cohesion," Stacy claimed, when service members were allowed to openly profess their desire for members of the same sex. However, male-on-male sexual assault in the military has increased precipitously since then.

Complaints against the military's ban on soldiers portraying themselves as the opposite sex have been persistent over the past couple of years. When the DoD released in 2014 a homosexual-friendly edition of the department's regularly updated "Human Goals Charter," transgender activists expressed disappointment over the document's refusal to condemn discrimination based on "gender identity."

At the time, Lieutenant Commander Nathan Christiansen, speaking for the Pentagon, justified the omission by claiming that "gender identity" falls under the category of "sex discrimination" and thus did not need special mention. However, Christiansen also stated that the DoD had no intention of updating its transgender ban.

He too divulged misgivings about mainstreaming transgender soldiers: "The Department considers that service members must serve in austere environments, many of which make necessary and ongoing treatments related to sex reassignment and many other conditions untenable."

FRC's Lt. Gen. Boykin expressed suspicion over the DoD's about-face on transgender policy since 2014. "No new science has led to the Pentagon'[s] transgender study – only the politics of the Obama administration and the transgender movement," Boykin wrote in his July statement.

The Obama administration has tenaciously pursued accommodations for individuals who want to be treated as members of the opposite sex, notably through DoD policies, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuits targeting private companies, and aggressive campaigns against public and Catholic schools.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; transgender
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To: wagglebee; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...

Active Duty ping.


21 posted on 08/28/2015 5:50:43 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar
we are sooooo screwed...
22 posted on 08/28/2015 7:49:55 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: tbw2
Being retired military myself, IF I WERE IN CHARGE, the'd be no HOMOSEXUALS or other REPROBATES in the military.
As soon as they are discovered, they're OUT, WITH A DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE.
NO "IFs", NO "ANDs", NO "BUTs", and NO "EXCEPTIONS" !
23 posted on 08/28/2015 7:52:26 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now
Do a poll of Americans and you’ll find that people don’t want their country defended by people who cannot even discipline themselves or their obsessions.

In the only polls that count in 2008 and 2012, Americans voted for this.

And although I'm positive about some of our choices for 2016, I'm afraid Americans will vote for more of this.

24 posted on 08/30/2015 4:51:34 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
18 posted on 8/28/2015, 7:30:28 PM by Gay State Conservative: “China, Russia, North Korea and Iran (among others) are watching this and laughing their hindquarters off!”

I think Russia has allowed open homosexuals in their military for a while, and sex change surgery is probably too expensive for anyone outside the upper elites to afford. Otherwise, you're probably right.

Sooner or later, someone is going to leak (deliberately or otherwise) a briefing paper or video from someone in Iran or China saying that America no longer needs to be feared because it not only permits but promotes immorality and degeneracy in its military. North Korea probably won't care unless American military degeneracy shows up in the South Korean military, but if Kim Jong-un decided transvestite American soldiers have propaganda value in convincing his people that Americans are awful, this might show up all over North Korea as an example of why Americans are not only bad but also weak.

Whatever high-ranking officers may have done in private, Asian military forces have been known for centuries for strict obedience to orders. That doesn't mean that some very bad things (mass rapes of enemies, for example) didn't happen. Religion and morality have not historically been viewed as “private matters” in Asian society — they've been part and parcel of support for the government — and giving soldiers a moral framework so they do what they're told when their superiors aren't looking is part of that framework. It doesn't make much difference to the government whether its citizens and soldiers follow Mao's “little red book,” Confucian ethics, Buddhism, Shinto emperor worship, or something else, as long as it keeps them in line and doing what they're told.

As for Iran, their radical Islamic fundamentalism makes pretty obvious why they would regard this as degeneracy.

Sooner or later, we're going to see the consequences of people learning the hard way what happens when young soldiers no longer know “what right looks like.” I hope it doesn't happen when a better-disciplined military with a strong faith in the wrong god kicks our rear ends and defeats us in battle.

25 posted on 10/02/2015 9:21:52 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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To: Yosemitest

I will say this:

The best NCO I have been under so far has been a lesbian. She had all her affairs in order, was good to me, was never sensitive to what she was and even made fun of it sometimes, never made an issue of her homosexuality to the unit, and she squared me away more than I ever could do for myself. In fact, when some homosexual organization invited her to a pride parade, she immediately declined it upon learning that Chelsea Manning was the honorary “queen” of that parade. I have seen similarly squared-away homosexual males as well.

That being said, though I do believe that it’s fine for homosexuals that don’t cause a fuss to serve in the military, I think that permanent transsexuals should definitely not be allowed due to the confusion they would cause in terms of quarters, paperwork, uniforms, dependency statuses, etc.


26 posted on 10/02/2015 11:15:28 AM PDT by Ulmius
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To: Ulmius


TO TOLERATE HOMOSEXUALS IS EVIL.
This is what we get when we FAIL to OBEY God.
For it is written: Those who support homosexuals are against our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
These anti Christ people only bring destruction on us ALL.
I have NO sympathy for homosexuals!

Homosexuality is a "Mark" of disobedience.
Someone once asked The answer is in the definition of "REPROBATE". And the reason"why" is given in the Bible.

God has a cure for homosexuals.

"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect
that God is just,
that his justice cannot sleep forever."


27 posted on 10/02/2015 8:38:08 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Ulmius
I SAY AGAIN:
28 posted on 10/02/2015 8:40:27 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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