Posted on 11/25/2024 5:57:13 AM PST by Morgana
President elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to issue an executive order on his 'first day in office' to ban transgender members of the military.
The controversial order would cause as many as 15,000 active service members to be 'medically discharged' - deeming them unfit to serve, according to The Times.
Trump seeks to issue the executive action on January 20, 2025 or Day 1 of his term, the Times said, preventing any transgender people from enlisting in the military as all branches continue to struggle with recruitment.
The 78-year-old former president has nominated former Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense and has pledged to purge all government agencies of 'woke' policies.
In a podcast interview recently, Hegseth called the inclusion of transgender people in the service 'pushing boundaries.'
He suggested that you can't integrate trans people in as easily as people of different races were integrated 'because being transgendered in the military causes complications and differences.”
Hegseth also said that transgender people were 'not deployable' because they are 'reliant on chemicals.'
DailyMail.com has reached out to spokepersons for Trump for comment.
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Outstanding
One only hopes. I would be respectfully polite, without pronouns, to someone transgender, but I do believe it’s a mental illness that should not be encouraged in the military. Our military has one purpose, and that’s to protect this country. Not to be a leading lite in social reform.
‘medically discharged’
Well, it is a mental disorder.
And he needs to immediately fire any commissioned officer that refuses to execute his order. Last time the joint chiefs slow walked it and the head of the coast guard outright refused the order.
The UK Mail and “Da Times” are both British toilet paper. What makes those boneheads think that the American military is any of their business? The doofuses need to worry about their own military.
Good.
Right. I remember having to take a rather long and repetitive personality test to get security clearance. Is this no longer applicable?
I may actually get tired of winning (no I won’t).
Being a trans in the military under that idiot biden is probably considered a resume enhancement.
Liberals seem to go into professions that are meant to protect in order to destroy. And they’re so proud of himself as they do that. They’ve ruined so many professions over the last decades - social workers, teachers, doctors, historians. Recovering those professions will take generations.
Kick out the mentally ill and stop the forever wars and recruitment will soar.
Put them all on the same submarine. /s
It’s good to see sane in action.
Thank you. I always wonder how they wouldn’t let you in with flat feet, but for man that had their junk cut off, they basically have the equilivant of an open wound for the rest of their life, but that is medically acceptable
Stupid beyond belief
As a retired 32 year service member who had a direct hand in the first time he considered this I say THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!
Mentally ill individuals should not be in control of high-powered military weaponry. Good move, Mr. President.
There are 15,000 transgenders in the military???
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