Posted on 06/24/2016 4:35:20 PM PDT by drewh
The Defense Department has been reviewing the policy for nearly a year
Nearly a year ago, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the U.S. military’s ban on the open service of transgender troops was “outdated” and promised the policy would be reviewed. Advocacy groups had grown impatient in the early months of this year, but a report late Friday indicates their wait is almost over.
USA Today, citing an unnamed Department of Defense official, reports the ban will end on July 1 and that Pentagon officials are gathering to finalize the details in the coming days. Individual branches of the armed services would have a year to implement new policies. A study commissioned by the Department of Defense and conducted by the RAND Corporation found that there “would be few hurdles to allowing transgender people to serve openly,” the New York Times recently reported.
Estimates of how many active duty military members identify as transgender are wide-ranging educated guesses, given that this is not information that the federal government collects. The RAND study estimated that only about 2,500 of the 1.2 million active duty members are transgender, while a study by UCLA’s Williams Institute estimated the number to be 15,500, in addition to 134,300 veterans.
Advocacy groups reacted to the news on Friday with approval. “This final remnant of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will now be put to rest. This decision is a great victory for the many trans people who have served and sacrificed in the military over the years,” the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán said in a statement. “They also served in fear of being discharged from the service for simply being who they are. Thankfully this now will change.”
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The don't ask, don't tell (DADT) policy was devised for the express purpose of allowing gays to openly join the military.
Prior to DADT, the military did ask, and responded by discharging the homosexuals. Bill Clinton wanted to lift the ban outright, but met with considerable opposition. So he instituted DADT, to allow gays to join as long as they kept quiet (they could still be discharged if it was learned they were gay).
When Obama was elected, the media went into full propaganda mode. They characterized Obama's ditching of the DADT policy as a "reversal" of DADT, when it never was. A reversal would have meant that the military would have gone back to the previous policy of asking, and not allowing homosexuals to join, or else discharging them if it turned out they had lied initially. What Obama did was an expansion of Clinton's policy--where Clinton had made it possible to join as long as gays kept quiet about it, Obama has made it so that gays can openly flaunt their homosexuality.
You have to be careful with the leftist narrative. They misrepresent the past in order to fabricate a narrative that advances their agenda.
No. This is a new secret weapon. Trannies will come in full drag to an occupied town, pretending to be mute prostitutes (don’t know the language). Then when the enemy Johns lay their money down and are all set to have a go in the alleyway with a hot mute chick, they take out their derringers and waste the bastards. They’ll call it Drag Force.
I was part of the brown shoe army, along with many of my buddies who are retired here. When we see these articles we just look at each other and shake our heads. We are what is left of the greatest generation and the generation that followed. Its times like these that we would all like to wring necks of the politicians behind it. God forbid any of them actually served in the military. This is no longer the military, its turned into a circus, and maybe on purpose? I think I’ll look into getting one of those newfangled cheap M-15s, maybe they’ll recall me and I’ll be ready by the time I learn how to fire it. I Can’t afford an M-1. anymore.
So the military spends thousands of dollars to train up a soldier to tote heavy weights over long distances in inclement weather and then shoot at a target with great accuracy. Then they allow this soldier to start a regimen which will decrease his physical aptitude.
How stupid and wrongheaded is that?
Good post.
We deserve to be conquered.
It never did work for Clinger. I don’t remember that show really well. Why was he allowed to wear frou frou skirts on the front lines in Koreabasas? Why wasn’t he thrown out on mental health grounds if they believed he was transgender enough to allow him to wear dresses?
I understand ya, BUT.
What if one of these freaks are somehow genius at Languages, Numbers, Computing, maybe a doctor, or some other very needed military function and they are not allowed?
It is a good question,
What happens when they’re captured in the Middle East? Duh!!
It is all part of the plan.
Why is the fruit faggot on the far left conversing with the hillary look alike slop with the red hair?
This Obozo traitor is going to rev up the pace of depravity these last 6+ months. Just watch, every bit of depravity that he did not date push before now will be rammed through before Jan. 20. God how I loathe this bastard.
*dare push
>>those four don’t look like front line troops..
Not unless low crawling is being replaced by L.I.F.E.R. R.E.M.F. carpet whatevering.
Its smart... if you want to weaken our military for years to come.
This is ridiculous.
Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what sex change your country can do for you.
The new brave army...
And, given that the federal always ends up pushing its own culture and religion on other states... guess what... you wont be able to protest and criticize at home either.
So what is the lesbian on the left doing hanging out with trannies?
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Funny... But I honestly feel the real reason so many “lesbians” look like men is maybe they are more man than believed. You have heard of “lady boys”? Well I assert these “Lesbians” are “Man Girls”.
How focused on fighting is the soldier who is not even sure of his own body? More soldiers with openly-displayed mental illnesses don’t scare the enemy!
Dead God, tell me that is not an actual photo of actual tranny vets.
We are backed into a corner now. We have to discriminate. We have to restrain evil. We must have standards. Some things we must not allow any longer. Political correctness must die.
You can’t make deals with mental illness or the devil, and that’s what we’ve been doing for the last 100 years or so.
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