Posted on 07/26/2017 6:59:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump's decision to ban transgender troops was the furthest he has waded into culture wars since taking office — and perhaps his most polarizing decision since the original travel ban. This issue had been quietly burning for months, with social conservative leaders pressing the White House on why it hadn't made a decision.
In May, the Conservative Action Project released a memo calling for Trump to end the "social engineering" of permitting transgender people to serve and paying for gender re-assignment surgeries. Influential movement leaders wondered what the heck was taking so long, why Defense Secretary James Mattis seemed to be stalling rather than reversing the Obama-era policies.
After an amendment to reverse those policies failed, House conservatives, especially Rep. Mark Meadows of the House Freedom Caucus, started threatening not to vote for the military appropriations bill unless the transgender issues were resolved.
Internally, Mike Pence, Rick Dearborn, Marc Short, Steve Bannon and Paul Teller were pushing to overturn the Obama-era policy on transgender troops. Meadows' late intervention empowered Bannon and others to make the point to Trump that the security bill, which included Trump priorities like the border wall, could be derailed unless they handled this issue now.
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Men who wear dresses or women who want penises do NOT belong in the military..PERIOD end of sTory
You got that right. Besides, our military has enough on their plates without this crap going on.......like staying alive. They don’t need the distraction and the military is no place for social engineering. It’s for killing the enemy ,declaring victory and getting the hell out!
Winning Dittos
turotd
He was gone. And then he wasn’t. :)
Not just that but these transgender freaks want our Govt to pay for their sex change operations..so instead of money being used to protect US troops the money will be used to cut off ding dongs I dont think so!
See Drudge. The left has trotted out a freak to claim all her medals and such from Afghanistan and Iraq prove there was no disruption to unit cohesiveness—but we can’t know that for a fact. This dudette just looks like a man with a bad wig on. And his/her quotes are idiotic. What gets me is the current regs allow a guy to join up just to get the reassignment surgery and then 2 years time off—all at taxpayers’ expense. It’s insanity.
First really positive thing I’ve heard about him if true.
Now they need to end the silliness of letting women into combat arms units.
I bet you he wasn’t transgender while being a Navy SEAL. If that was something he wanted to do afterwards that’s fine but guarantee he didn’t look like that picture in the paper when he was with the Seals.
Yep, and I know who.
I will be at the White House a week from Saturday with Bannon and ask him then if he’s still there.
LoL.
....his most polarizing decision since the original travel ban.
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Really? Polarizing for whom? Not decent, patriotic Americans.
....his most polarizing decision since the original travel ban.
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Really? Polarizing for whom? Not decent, patriotic Americans.
Who cares... No one gives a damn about these freaks.
Lindsey Graham is deeply saddened.
Typical Dim/liberal playbook, if you listen to then you would assume that benefit was DECADES old.
I’m not a vet but it pains me to think of all the hoops and machinations and paperwork has been generated by the military being forced to accommodate the whim of Obama.
So can we bathe the WH in reverse rainbow colors?
Now get rid of the gays. I didn’t mind serving when gays kept it to themselves but I would not want to serve in an openly gay military at all. Gays do not belong in the military in any capacity at all.
They can never be fully trusted.
Polarizing my ass. Popular is more like it. And sane.
Well DUH!!! All of this PERVERSION has gotten out of hand.
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