White House Sets Rules for Military Transgender Ban

wsj.com ^ | Aug. 23, 2017 | Gordon Lubold

[Chode]

let the whining commence

[Chode]

for your enjoyment

[SoFloFreeper]

Boom.

[Vision]

What a pathetic world we live in where this is news.

[PROCON]

The move by Mr. Obama was among a series of steps toward opening the military to larger segments of the U.S. population. Other steps included rescinding the “don’t ask, don’t tell” prohibition against gays serving openly and opening most combat jobs to women.

Horse Crappola, the move was ONLY made to weaken our Military.

Can you imagine what our Military would look like today if Hillary was elected?

[canalabamian]

The security of the nation and the combat readiness of the military outweigh the needs of the confused.

[central_va]

CWII will involve a new Confederate Army. It will not have faggots in it’s ranks.

[jazusamo]

"let the whining commence"

Amen, and it'll be deafening from the LGBTQ community...How sweet it is.

and is blatantly unconstitutional,” said the letter, whose signatories included Reps. Adam Smith of Washington and John Conyers of Michigan.

ROTFLMAO! As if either of them means squat.

[Uncle Sam 911]

Excellent! Next, get women out of combat jobs. Make the Military Great Again!

[txrefugee]

The WSJ is obviously supportive of the mentally ill gender benders. Wonder how many on its staff have ever served in the military and have an idea of what this does to unit cohesion.

[Chode]

[Uncle Sam 911]

Leftists have hated the military since Vietnam and Obama did all he could to destroy it. Trump needs to fire Obama’s Generals too instead of hiring them to be all around him.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[digger48]

Can you imagine what our Military would look like today if Hillary was elected?

What military?

[Jet Jaguar]

You are a new join. FBI by chance?

[miss marmelstein]

And yet some freepers were writing that his transgender ban was going nowhere.

[grania]

There’s the possibility that the collisions of ships in the Navy are caused by a breakdown of procedures. It just makes sense that accommodating sexually confused people is part of the problem.

[Raycpa]

Did you take a wrong turn and end up here by accident?

[exDemMom]

Gender dysphoria is a condition that many professional associations have said requires medical treatment. For instance, gender dysphoria is recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a medical issue. When diagnosed by a medical professional, transition therapy and reassignment surgery is considered by some insurers and states as a medically necessary treatment.

People with mental illnesses typically are not allowed to join the military.

“Transgender people are just as deployable as other service members,” said Sue Fulton, the former president of Sparta, a military organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people that advocates for open service. “Other service members may undergo procedures when they are at home base, just as other service members schedule shoulder surgery or gall bladder surgery.”

That is an outright lie. Most people who have surgery do not have to take drugs for the rest of their lives (and if they do, they are often medically boarded out of the military). They heal and are deployable. In contrast, those who choose to mutilate their bodies to resemble members of the opposite gender must continue to take hormones and hormone blockers for the rest of their lives in order to suppress their natural gender. That doesn't exactly bolster the claim that they are deployable--they aren't.