Posted on 11/26/2024 6:55:20 AM PST by airdalechief
President Trump will remove transgender servicemembers from the military by executive order on day one of his presidency.
“The ban is expected to be wider ranging than a similar order made during his first term in office, when Trump prevented transgender people joining the armed forces, but allowed those already serving to keep their jobs. President Biden rescinded the order, but this time even those with decades of service will be removed from their posts, according to several sources,” The Times reported.
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And it is.
Discrimination is a good thing. Remember when saying that someone has "discriminating tastes" was a compliment?
In this case, we're discriminating between those whose presence facilitates military readiness and those whose presence detracts from military readiness.
Don't know the current military policy on diabetics, but they were not allowed in at one point because deployment was too difficult.
make them pay the $$ back if they “transitioned” while in the military.
Shame on you, Tricare, BTW.
They can probably get jobs as school crossing guards in the socialist republics of Washington and Oregon.
“...anti-discrimination laws and policies To military service that you would to civilian life.”
Medically speaking, there are some similarities. Police, Fire, some abulance, and park ranger require a certain amount of need to be accomplished properly. But the government doesn’t have to relieve solders, marines, or airmen based upon sexual designation. All they really have to do is create a single standard of required capacity to work within the field based upon a standard to a moderate proportion rather than a minimum standard and enforce it so it doesn’t reach a question of go/no go.
The military just like any other “job” has failure situations. If a person can’t do the job, why create lower standards to fill in squares for those who can’t do it? Should a person who can’t respond well because they are disabled for a police position that requires street duty? Do you make blind people artilary spotters or park ranger tower fire spotters? If that’s the case, do you require people who are not physically fit for a position to be assigned to fill a partisan angle?
I spent over 35 years in the military at different levels training soldiers, airmen, and marines for combat, physically. Some did not make it. Some shouldn’t have. But I don’t set the standards, just train and test for standards established by people who don’t play the game and in too many cases ignore the recommendations of their underlings that are in the pits. We would be a better force if people were actually assigned with good faith into what they can do rather than what they are expected to do.
wy69
“We should have allowed 5k Ukranians serve in the US infantry trained on anti-tank and mine technology.”
I can see it now. The 101st SS Azov Division.
Hegseth said that transgender people were 'not deployable' because they are 'reliant on chemicals.'
The Pentagon has spent more than $26 million treating transgender troops since 2020, official records show...In the past three years, $17.5m in taxpayer money was spent on psychotherapy for trans service people and $1.5m went towards hormone drugs.We need to go back to the not-so-long ago days where these freaks would have been immediately labeled 4F, "unfit for duty" and instantly dismissed.A further $7.6m funded gender-affirming surgeries, including facial tweaks to make a recruit more masculine or feminine, and the removal or creation of breasts and genitals.
I believe all the DEI crap is why my son and nephew passed on serving in the military - and we are a military family.
Yes, there are, and mental illness should be put back on the list.
Can’t blame them for not wanting to go in. Too much ideological and social engineering BS to have to endure, along with the endless deployments for dubious reasons.
You sure about that? CIC is a powerful position.
Unpopular opinion: I think anyone who wants to serve to protect their country should be permitted to.
Find an MOS for these people provided they’re not breaking any laws.
I don’t think right now is the time to start kicking people out of the military unless they’re actual traitors.
The military has always had a policy of discharging those who refuse a vaccine. It’s not new and not specific to covid.
They do have the option of granting exceptions if they think that you are too valuable to release or that you have a valid reason to refuse.
I’m a veteran, and 20 year (retired) government worker at a local military base. Even though I have 30 years experience or knowledge in this area, I’m not saying I’m “all knowing, all seeing.” But I’ve seen enough to know that doing what some say Trump will do in this regards (though we’re hearing all this talk is bogus) is something one can’t snap their fingers and make happen.
“The military has always had a policy of discharging those who refuse a vaccine.”
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I understand the military’s policy as the rapid spread of infections in close quarters can be problematic with respect to readiness issues. That said, COVID was not a great threat to young, healthy people and the long term effects of the vaccine were unknown (not to mention its efficacy). Not unreasonable for them to have concerns about taking the vaccine due to perceived concerns over long term risks.
The military rarely concedes to individual wishes, although the LGBTQetc personnel do seem to get plenty of accommodations and they may have been able to collectively resist the vaccine if they had wanted to fight it.
There are 15,000.....15,000 TRANNIES in our MILITARY!
Reduction in Force, is a thing. I saw it in my time in service (Army). It was targeting fat bodies. If I recall they were given every opportunity to meet standards, if not able or willing they were discharged. I’ve read of it happening in the AF and Army since. Who initiated the RIF, I don’t know. I assumed it came from the top dog, CIC. I may have seen reference to congressional action but don’t care enough to go searching.
Salute to President Trump keeping America strong.
A lot of people unfamiliar with the military have the idea that separation due to refusal to take the Covid vaccine was something new and particular to the Covid vaccine.
It’s not, and I just wanted to address that. The military’s default position is that you have to take whatever vaccines that they decide to give you. They are treating the Covid vaccine the same as they do all of the others in their arsenal.
“That said, COVID was not a great threat to young, healthy people and the long term effects of the vaccine were unknown”
There’s nothing magical about time passing. Vaccines have traditionally taken a long time to validate simply because three stages of testing have been run sequentially instead of in parallel. What’s important is the number of individuals being tested, not how much time elapses afterwards. Warp Speed ran three stages of testing simultaneously, with a huge number of participants. It’s the largest sample size ever done for any vaccine, all done before the vaccines were authorized for general release.
“(not to mention its efficacy)”
Efficacy is measured by how well a vaccine stimulates antibody production against a specific antigen. The antigen target for all of the Warp Speed vaccines was the spike protein of the 2020 virus. The “archaic” Covid virus. Within a year of the release of the vaccines the virus with the archaic spike ceased to circulate. That’s effective. What continues to circulate are variants having a different spike. Immune systems trained by the 1st generation vaccine don’t see those as the enemy.
Trump had troops in Ukraine training them.
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