Standing Sentry, Fabulously.
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a year ago, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the U.S. military’s ban on the open service of transgender troops was “outdated” and promised the policy would be reviewed.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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Nobody has brought up which hair standard will apply to the fruits.
So, the legislature has been completely locked out of this radical decision, unconstitutionally?
Where is Ryan’s or McConnell’s objections? Oh, right. They are just Obama’s little b*tches.
I want to see the Putin incredulous chuckle video clip about now.
It has already been established transgenderism is a form of mental illness. What they are saying is they will force the troops to work alongside mentally ill people who should never be in the military in the first place. Great.
But this idea of allowing transvestites to serve openly will be very short lived. It will end as soon as a Republican takes office in the White House. That is certain.
Or it will end as these trans freaks start disappearing en mass.
“...only about 2,500 of the 1.2 million active duty members are transgender”
Only?
That seems a huge number.
Liberals want to eliminate the patriots in the military and replace them with political activists, gays, lesbians, and freaks.
Of course it is.
All it takes is a different POTUS/CinC.
About the ONLY thing Bill Clinton got right was Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
What in the world was right about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? It just gave the queers a foothold to do what we have now. (BTW, they DID tell, with impunity.)
No, a new CinC won’t be able to take away the mess, no matter how conservative he is. Are they going to discharge the sexual deviants that have been ensconced in the military, or will they be “grandfathered?” As long as their presence persists, it will be a festering infection. Plus, he’ll have the compromised federal court system to deal with.
You can’t make this stuff up, except for Corporal Klinger! Lol
Those are not U.S. Troops.
Standing Sentry, Fabulously.
Step 1. Lift Ban
Step 2. Make Mandatory
They let these things have a Security Clearance ?
Exactly right. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell opened the door to the entire freak show.
Yes
In my day, anyone caught being this way in the Army would’ve gotten a blanket party...or several...or worse. And they’d have been reported to their commander and summarily drummed out of the service.
This needs to happen again.
Can you imagine Obama’s faggy pansy Army against Putin’s Men?
It would be NO Contest, Putin’s soldiers would laugh themselves to death.
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