Posted on 03/15/2020 7:44:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Nic Talbott keeps himself busy, working as a substitute teacher, studying for a master’s degree, helping with chores at his grandmother’s farm. He also finds time, almost daily, for rigorous workouts — to ensure he is in shape in case his dream job, serving in the U.S. military, becomes available.
For now, that door is closed to him by the Trump administration for one reason: He’s transgender.
Talbott, 26, was elated in 2016 when the Pentagon — with a green light from then-President Barack Obama — announced that transgender people already serving in the military would be allowed to do so openly. President Donald Trump, six months after replacing Obama, announced with a tweet in July 2017 that he would reverse that policy and bar transgender individuals from serving in any capacity in the military.
Four lawsuits were filed in federal courts challenging Trump’s policy, including one in which Talbott is a plaintiff. The suits are pending, but the Supreme Court last year ruled that the ban could go into effect while the litigation continued. The ban was formally implemented on April 12, 2019.
Some transgender people who hoped to enlist have moved on to other pursuits, but Talbott refuses to give up on a career aspiration that dates to his childhood. […]
Before the ban, Talbott was participating in an Army ROTC program. He says he’d be open to serving in either the Army or the Air Force, ideally as a military police officer or in a military intelligence unit. …
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What we need, mentally ill people in MI.
So a butch lesbian turns herself into a slovenly unshaven obese imitation man and demands to serve in the military.
Let’s see this thing’s PFT scores.
No.
You’re on hormones and have permanently disfigured your body - you are in no way mentally or physically fit to fight.
The purpose of the U.S. Military is not to provide jobs or do social experiments.
The purpose of the U.S. Military is the protect United States interests, particularly from foreign threats.
To a much more limited extent, from domestic enemies.
Nobody has stopped her enlisting as her correct gender...
Why doesn’t she go in as a woman ...
I doubt if she wants to be in the military that badly...
It seems that she wants to pretend shes a man much more than she wants to serve in the armed forces...
So I can Take advantage of me being a transgender
I see the reason for this article - to trash Trump. If you lop off your weewee you have an emotional problem. You should not be in the military.
The door is closed to “him/her/it” because “he” is mentally ill.
If this person takes no drugs or needs medical assistance to maintain her illusion of being a male, I see no need to prohibit her from serving.
If so, then treat her like every other person who desires to join the military but cannot due to an existing medical condition. Why should she enjoy special status?
He/she/IT only cares about the military paying for all of its medical bills, nothing else.
Transgender it yearns for free publicity.
Right from the second paragraph too.
If you watch the TLC Show “I am Jazz”, you see a Mentally Ill Boy whose “caring” Parents and Doctors put him on Puberty Blockers at age ten.
The Boy has since had Transition Surgery (look Mom, no more Penis), managed to get accepted to Harvard University while attending “On Line” High School (without taking the SAT) and is apparently Clinically Depressed while battling an Eating Disorder.
Here Son, oops Whatever, take this Joementia Approved AR-14 and Kill, Kill, Kill...
A Female Cross Dresser right?? How about a Person with a Vagina claiming to be a Man??
WTF is the World coming to?
Yup, all the serious things going on in the country and our mentally deficient AP decides that this is an interesting article.
When there are plenty of folks available, why choose one with a mental problem? Yea, that’ll work.
The dream of Stevie Wonder’s lifetime is to play for the Celtics. Doesn’t seem likely.
No he yearns to be a pervert first and only that.
Life is full of choices, he chose...................
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