Posted on 01/08/2019 11:06:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
LONDON — Four senior retired U.S. military officers on Tuesday blasted a legal ruling backing President Donald Trump's ban on transgender individuals serving in the armed forces as "wrong" ahead of a key decision from the country's top court on Friday.
The officers said a ruling last week by a Washington appeals court in favor of a ban on transgender recruits was misguided and backed an earlier decision that such a policy would violate their constitutional rights.
"The D.C. Court of Appeals made an error when it lifted one of the injunctions that protect transgender members of our military," said retired officers Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy, Rear Admiral John Hutson, Major General Gale Pollock and Brigadier General Clara Adams-Ender.
"The need for an injunction protecting transgender people who serve their country remains precisely the same," they said in a joint statement obtained exclusively by the Thomson Reuters Foundation...
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For sure - I remember when Clintoon went with the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy....a retiring Chief Master Sergeant supposedly mentioned it in his speech and said that when he came in, they didn’t want homosexuals in, now it was OK and he was just glad he was getting out before it became mandatory.....could have been a rumor but it struck home with us....
I wonder if these 4 guys have been playing dress up themselves?
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