Posted on 11/26/2024 12:40:14 PM PST by MtnClimber
The news media is calmly warning that Donald Trump is planning to ban transgender servicemembers from the American military, which will absolutely gut the armed forces.
Sample claim, from Newsweek, quoting the leader of an LGBT advocacy nonprofit:
"Abruptly discharging 15,000-plus service members, especially given that the military's recruiting targets fell short by 41,000 recruits last year, adds administrative burdens to war fighting units.
"There would be a significant financial cost, as well as a loss of experience and leadership that will take possibly 20 years and billions of dollars to replace."
We’ll practically have no military left! It would be like a whole infantry division suddenly just vanishing: 15,000-plus transgendered service members.
You’re going to see this number a lot in the weeks ahead. The New Republic, today: “Donald Trump’s plan to ban transgender people from the military would have a devastating effect: At least 15,000 members would be forced to leave.”
That number comes from a 2018 report by the now-defunct Palm Center, a pro-LGBT independent research institute in California, which reached this conclusion: “Transgender troops make up 0.7% (seven-tenths of one percent) of the military (Active Component and Selected Reserve).” Their best guess about a total number: 14,707. The media is just rounding that number up to the next thousand.
The Palm Center…extrapolated a lot, let’s say, in good part by multiplying their guess about a percentage, derived from a grossly inadequate survey of a select number of active duty troops, times the total number of servicemembers. Page 4:....SNIP
Indeed, they are just as uncareful homosexuals are drawn to the military to get their treatment. Both groups are not easily deployed.
I could believe 500 to 1000. I could also believe that the combination of Trump being President, his top people not only kicking out queers, but also sending women back to the mess hall, will literally FLOOD the military with new recruits to select from.
The .5% number was a “guesstimate”, not a survey result. I think I read somewhere (I looked for the source, but can’t find it) that the LBGT group that created the number based it on a percentage of their own group which probably biases the number upward.
There are 2 genders. Anything else is mental illness.
Exactly. I have my doubts there are 15,000 transgenders in the whole country, but certainly not 15,000 in the military.
They could get part way to their 20 years and dems could usurp power again.
No wonder America's enemies are laughing!
No wonder there's a recruitment problem!
Trump can't get into office fast enough!
Trans whatever’s are not deployable and never will be per directive. Medication affects and effects produces too many unpredictables in the confused patient.
“are the trans drawn to the military to get their meds”
Lowered standard for Basic Training, pass your specialty school, probably paper pushing, and after that 3 1/2 years of light duty vacation as the taxpayer funds for your “transition.”
Just like there have only been 11 million illegal aliens for the past 30 years.
I did a google search to find it.
I don’t think I ever saw one “in nature” growing up. But, I don’t care what you are. Just don’t make me pay for it. And, if you are a raging hormone machine—don’t put the fox hole buddy in danger.
I am a simple person.
I joined the army in 1996. If the army was anything then like it is now, I would’ve just kept delivering pizza.
I’m pretty much the same. What you do in private is your own business as long as you don’t impinge on the rights of others.
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