Posted on 12/12/2014 7:38:34 PM PST by Morgana
The Obama administration is signaling its support for transgender people to serve openly in the military, in the barracks of their choice.
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James summarized the position, saying, "Times change."
She told USA Today yesterday that the possibility of transgender service "is likely to come under review in the next year or so.”
James, who never served in the military, was appointed to a Defense Department position in the Clinton administration before being tapped to lead a branch of the service by Barack Obama.
“I don't believe this would be a positive step for military readiness at all,” Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council, told LifeSiteNews.
“The military has always considered gender identity disorder to be disqualifying for military service on mental health grounds, and I don't see any reason why they should change that policy,” he said.
He added that all the issues of allowing biological males access to the facilities of the opposite sex would be amplified “in the military world, where you have people living in close quarters, in intimate situations with very little privacy.”
“You have the potential for people who are biologically male but present themselves as female being housed with and using the same restroom, locker room, and shower facilities as people who are actually born female,” a circumstance women may find “legitimately disturbing.”
Advocates of channeling the federal government's resources to supporting sexual minorities reacted with joy at James' remarks. Ian Thompson of the ACLU said, "It is only a question of when, not if, the outdated, discriminatory ban on transgender troops will be lifted.”
Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, told LifeSiteNews this spring that changing the policy “would have serious consequences” and “does not make sense for the military.” She warned that some transgender people may opt to join the military to receive sex-change operations paid for by the American taxpayer.
Sprigg said all “the slippery slope predictions we made” following the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell “are coming true – that it would simply be the first step toward the imposition of an even more radical social agenda upon the military.”
The Obama administration pivoted swiftly to the new cultural battlefront. Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel raised the possibility of open transgender military service with some hesitation during a May interview with ABC News, adding that it's “an area we've not defined enough yet.” The Washington Blade, a homosexual publication, reports that last May, “Air Force Undersecretary Eric Fanning, who’s gay, endorsed the idea of allowing transgender people to serve in the U.S. armed forces.”
Despite the atmosphere created by her remarks, transgender activists are not content to have military service receive lip service. Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military), said, "President Obama is the commander in chief and is ultimately responsible for setting policy, and it is imperative for him to clarify his position, as well."
That could lead the president to make yet another unilateral action. Sprigg noted that “the Obama administration may try to change this longstanding policy simply through executive order alone, or through administrative action.”
President Obama has frequently enacted transgender policies by executive fiat, sometimes reinterpreting laws barring sexual discrimination to apply to transgender people. A Texas court recently ruled against the assertion, saying federal law banning discrimination against women was not intended to cover gender identity.
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The Blade reports that a senior Pentagon aide told them that an internal review is unlikely at the moment, because of lack of pressure on the administration.
Yet an internal measure is the most likely path forward. There is little support allowing transgender people to serve in the military, inside or outside Congress. The policy has been endorsed by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi – as well as Congressmen Scott Peters, Susan Davis, Loretta Sanchez, and Niki Tsongas and former Georgetown contraception activist Sandra Fluke. None have served in the military, although Davis and Tsongas lived in military families.
“I think as dramatic a change as this really should be subject to Congressional decision making,” Sprigg said.
Every soldier should sue. When they joined, whether it be last week or 29 years 11 months ago it was under the clear understanding that men were men and women were women.
Thanks for reminding me of my mistake of voting for Romney. I want to be reminded from time to time to keep me from doing something like that again.
Yep, our military is going to be seriously intimidating when they roll into theater looking like your average bizarro gay pride parade. The muzzies will tremble! But our guys/gals/whatzits will be SO politically correct as they’re being mowed down.
“Really getting so hard to give a damn about anything anymore. I don’t even recognize this country. It’s become like an insane-asylum, run by deviants. Makes me want to vomit. Am I really supposed to care anymore about the preservation of this republic?”
Agreed. At this point, it seems God has removed His lamp from this nation and it is going to suffer all the consequences of embracing depravity so thoroughly and with such abandon that it deserves all the hell it’s asking for (with all the fine print, as C.S. Lewis would say).
Prepare for some serious darkness. We ain’t seen nothing yet.
This uniform reg thing was discussed already in the 1990s, and they strongly worded statements that men would wear men’s uniforms and women would wear women’s uniforms...they could already see the problems coming up.
I think this opens up a vast number of daily soap operas and fake/fraud transgender folks playing mental games. I’ll announce myself as I arrive at base X...I’m transgender, so I want to grow my hair long, wear a dress with unshaved legs, and try to intimidate senior NCOs sexually. Between investigations, social actions games, and behavior modification sessions....I can keep ten people a day busy with my game, and totally unfocused with the mission. Just put ten such people on a base, and it’d be a hundred folks who aren’t part of the mission but part of some transgender game.
That would make the new OHIO Class replacement submarine in design at least 10 ft longer.
When America goes to war in a big way; I wonder how all these PC policies will turn out. I have a hunch these freaks will either suddenly become conscientious objectors or suffer a disproportionate amount of battle losses. Somewhere, on the order of 99 out of 100.
Next on this moron secretary’s agenda: Unicorn shit in lieu of jet fuel!
Tyipcal obozo appointee
RLTW
You’re mistaken. What we are destroying is normalcy. We will always have fearsome technology to use. Without normalcy, we will use it on the innocent. We are headed toward a soul-less military that will destroy GOOD rather than evil. Not because trannies are evil, but because the decisions being made are done in an effort that promotes the sin, promotes evil ends, and helps not the sinner or the public safety of our country or the world.
They inject themselves with hormones.
People who have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are not accepted into the service. Why would they allow those who claim to be in the wrong body serve?
“Times change”. What lame “reasoning”. Depravity remains depravity and sin remains sin no matter what.
That’s the reason why so many people get disqualified from serving in the military, if someone takes antidepressants, they can’t serve, if they need injections of insulin, can’t serve. So why do they think someone taking steroids should somehow qualify. The more this goes on, the less bad I feel when our military suffers a defeat, our people at the top made this happen. My only message to people thinking about serving is, don’t be surprised if they kick you out for doing the right thing.
off topic, thought of you after reading your tagline last night.
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I have the book of their deployment the year before my son went. The 3/5 will forever be in my heart.
The US is turning into Sodom and Gomorrah. These perverts better not turn around — remember Lot’s wife.
Countries rise and fall too.
“Without normalcy, we will use it on the innocent. We are headed toward a soul-less military that will destroy GOOD rather than evil.”
I agree with you. This will be the result indeed!
All the way.
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