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Transgender Air Force Sergeant Slams Trump's Service Ban: He 'Is Doing This Country an Injustice'
People's Magazine ^ | 07/26/2017 | BY CHAR ADAMS and LINDSAY KIMBLE

Posted on 07/26/2017 10:01:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Logan Ireland, an Air Force staff sergeant who began his transition to a man after two years of service, tells PEOPLE exclusively that he’d “love” to meet with President Trump and discuss the implications of the new sweeping ban on transgender military personnel.

“For the President to deny an able-bodied, fully qualified person the inherent right to raise their right hand and serve their country, potentially giving their own life for our freedoms, is doing this country an injustice,” Ireland says.

He continues, extending his invitation to Trump for a conversation, “I would love for my President to meet me so I can tell him about the 15,500 honorably serving transgender military members that are fighting right now for their liberties and for their country.”

Staff Sergeant Ireland, 29, joined the Air Force in 2010 as a woman, according to the Air Force Times. In 2012, he began his transition – a process Ireland had postponed to ensure he could enlist, as at the time serving as openly transgender was banned.

Ireland was previously profiled alongside his now-wife, Laila Villanueva, in a 2015 New York Times Op-ed documentary. Villanueva, 31, is also a transgender soldier.

In the documentary, both Villanueva and Ireland expressed that they had been met with acceptance and support by fellow service members, despite the then-policy.

(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; military; militaryreadiness; secdefmattis; second100days; transgender; trumpdod
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To: SeekAndFind; newgeezer

It’s the military’s duty to recruit in a DISCRIMINATING way.


41 posted on 07/26/2017 10:39:34 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (How many ways do liberals hate the bible?)
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To: SeekAndFind
In 2012, he began his transition – a process Ireland had postponed to ensure he could enlist...

Postponed to ensure that Uncle Sugar would pay for the treatments. On second thought, make that Aunt Sugar.

42 posted on 07/26/2017 10:42:58 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: SeekAndFind

First of all “he” is a woman...a mentally unstable, disturbed woman. Kick her out. Second, she should seek mental health treatment before she kills her self.


43 posted on 07/26/2017 10:43:29 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: SeekAndFind
his now-wife, Laila Villanueva,... Villanueva, 31, is also a transgender soldier.

So.... one is a woman who is now a man and the other is a man who is now a woman? And they're married, and getting kicked out of the military, because the military never in 200-odd years put up with such foolishness, then had a brief weak moment, and is now coming back to its senses?

I lead a boring life. And I'm fiercely glad for it.

44 posted on 07/26/2017 10:44:05 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Trump is taking heat for this. But, I'd argue that as Commander-in-Chief, this is one decision that he absolutely has the right, ability and responsibility to make.

No media complained when BO did the same thing, just the other side of the coin.

45 posted on 07/26/2017 10:46:18 AM PDT by wbill
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To: sport

I am currently in A Stan there is something called General Order #1 one of which is the seperation of the sexes in quarters which and long story short I do not know how trans service members would work over here that and some other things.


46 posted on 07/26/2017 10:46:24 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: SeekAndFind

Actually Transgendered are doing their DNA determined selves an injustice.


47 posted on 07/26/2017 10:46:43 AM PDT by amihow
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To: SeekAndFind

Is a staff sergeant publicly criticizing the Commander in Chief tolerated in the military?


48 posted on 07/26/2017 10:46:55 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: SeekAndFind

Whew, the winning.

49 posted on 07/26/2017 11:08:17 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Mears

The 15,500 are closet cross-dressers. They don’t know their terms.


50 posted on 07/26/2017 11:28:13 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I could not care less what some mentally ill deviant pervert has to say


51 posted on 07/26/2017 11:29:55 AM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: Mears

“I doubt that there are 15,500 transgenders——another pulled out of the air figure,I’ll bet.”

That figure was “estimated” (read: made up) by a think tank organization known as the palm center. Which advocates for homosexuals and transgendered in the military.


52 posted on 07/26/2017 11:30:53 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: SeekAndFind

Logan, tens of millions of people think the less than 1% of folks like you are perverts and belong in the nut house.

Quit trying to jam your perversions down America’s throat!


53 posted on 07/26/2017 11:37:23 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: SeekAndFind

The mentally ill have no place in the military.


54 posted on 07/26/2017 11:47:26 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey partner, you can dress properly or get the hell out. Very simple choices.


55 posted on 07/26/2017 11:57:33 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: SeekAndFind

If he worked for me, I would slap him with and Article 15 for insubordination to the Commander in Chief.


56 posted on 07/26/2017 11:58:24 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess traitor Chelsea is on his/her/its own now. No taxpayer dime for your butchering.


57 posted on 07/26/2017 11:59:29 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: SeekAndFind

Short hair and a mustache wont make you a man any more than long hair makes your “spouse” a woman. Actually this is a marriage of a man and a woman, they just cant figure out who is who.


58 posted on 07/26/2017 12:02:41 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: SeekAndFind

The self mutilated mentally ill should not be in the military the government or dealing with children. What would happen if an entire company refused to serve with one? Everyone in the brig one freako on duty?


59 posted on 07/26/2017 12:04:45 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Favorite t-shirt;)

60 posted on 07/26/2017 12:12:21 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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