Posted on 08/26/2017 2:08:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain decried President Trump's Friday order for the Pentagon to ban transgender people from entering the military.
"It would be a step in the wrong direction to force currently serving transgender individuals to leave the military solely on the basis of their gender identity rather than medical and readiness standards that should always be at the heart of Department of Defense personnel policy," McCain, R-Ariz., said in a statement late Friday.
"The Pentagon's ongoing study on this issue should be completed before any decisions are made with regard to accession. The Senate Armed Services Committee will continue to conduct oversight on this important issue," McCain added.
Earlier Friday evening, Trump issued a directive for the Pentagon to suspend plans to recruit transgender troops, including stopping medical treatment and deciding over the next six months if current troops can remain in the military.
"In President Trump's judgment, the previous administration failed to identify a sufficient basis to conclude that terminating the DOD and DHS long-standing policy and practice would not hinder military effectiveness or lethality, disrupt unit cohesion, tax military resources, etc.," an official told reporters about Trump's memo.
Trump first announced the decision in a tweet a few weeks ago.
Five transgender service members have sued the Trump administration over the new policy.
FUJM!
He’s the prototypical Manchurian candidate. He’s brain was sent out to be cleaned and pressed.
It won’t break my heart when the old corrupt sleazy bastard drops.
Yes. Same here. Worst vote cast followed by my vote for Crist in Florida his first run. What cracks me up is the same establishment republicans who demanded our loyalty to Mcain after the primary in the interest of party unity are the never trumpers now! I’ll never be cowtowed to vote for a rino again by the republican establishment.
Perhaps McCain will personally pay for their sex change operations and pay their salaries during their nondeployment. Because we the taxpayers are sick of it. Sick of being marginalized for a small piece of the population. Sick of having their twisted ideology foisted upon kindergarteners. The Trump voters are getting more and more determined to back him in the face of sore losing traitors.
Only when he is running for senate
Trump does leave it up to Mattis to decide who is medically fit for duty based on worldwide deployment standards
Having to heal and stretch out a big elective surgical gash where testicles once grew renders one unfit for 9 months.... or more
Then theres the antidepressants, pain meds hormones and steroids
Nothing like a permanently menopausal man or a butch woman with roid rage and heavy weapons - right
I think it would be truly fitting if he were to crash a(nother) plane and die.
Soros paid puppet. Keating 5 criminal. Vietnam Nam screw up and possible traitor.
Perennial Quisling in the GOP. Drop dead already John McCain!!!!
McCain is afraid Lindsey Graham could never be a soldier under the new policy.
McCain’s hate for Trump has left him void of all reason.
There is no case to be made for self-described transgendered troops improving our military in any way.
We don’t need the expense of dealing with their mental issues or surgery.
We don’t need the distraction of accommodating them and ordering other troops to accept or ignore their bizarre behavior.
That senile jackass should have been kicked out of the Senate long ago.
May you joke...but I think you may be on to something there...
McStain is an undocumented Democrat.
We weren’t given much of choice then, were we?
He's a frickin' democRAT.
He claims he almost switch parties in early 2000s. John Kerry even asked him to be his running mate....on the democRAT presidential ticket.
McLame is against Trump? I cudda' had a V-8! Tell us something we all don't already know.
Is mclame “saying” anything? I bet it is his staff of losers who are doing the “talking”. They guy is probably more brain dead every day as the cancer eats away at that shriveled, putrid mass.
Same position as Pelosi, Schumer and the like...
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