Posted on 06/02/2016 9:47:46 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Less than a year after the Supreme Court decided that marriage no longer needs partners of the opposite sex, the other two branches of the federal government are moving rapidly to eliminate all rational distinctions based on sex. Taken together, these new actions reflect the unscientific (but oh-so-politically correct) dogma that there are no fundamental, biological differences between male and female.
From the executive branch, controlled by President Obama and the Democrats, came a joint letter from the Departments of Justice and Education addressed to the nation's public schools and colleges that receive federal financial assistance. The letter instructed schools that henceforth they must recognize students' "internal sense of gender" as superseding "the sex they were assigned at birth."
The federal letter was prompted by the controversy over North Carolina's new law prohibiting men from entering women's restrooms, but it's not limited to restrooms with private stalls. It also requires schools to allow students to enter the group shower and locker room that accords with the student's "internal sense of gender" and even to be addressed with the pronoun they prefer.
Not to be outdone, the Republican-controlled Congress had its own bout of gender dysphoria, the trendy new ailment defined as stress caused by inability to identify with your biological sex. The Armed Services Committees of both Houses have approved legislation that would require young women to register for Selective Service, which puts them on a list to be called up for military combat.
The House committee acted first, voting 32-30 to include young women in the registration for a military draft. Two weeks later the Senate committee included a similar provision by order of its chairman, John McCain, and a motion to delete that provision was defeated by a vote of 19-7.
Senator McCain, who once joked that the liberal media is "my base," may feel that catering to the feminists will earn him enough free media to fend off a primary challenge from the conservative state senator, Dr. Kelli Ward. The draft-our-daughters provision was also supported by Republican feminists on Armed Services such as Sen. Kelly Ayotte (NH), Sen. Joni Ernst (IA), and Rep. Martha McSally (AZ).
Mandatory registration of women for military service was rejected by a Democrat-controlled Congress in 1980 after it was proposed by President Jimmy Carter. The exemption of women was upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in a decision written by the late Chief Justice Rehnquist during the term when his law clerk was the future Chief Justice, John Roberts.
Any woman can seek to enlist in our all-volunteer military, but men are six times more likely than women to volunteer and serve. The military meets its self-imposed quota of 15 percent women by providing child care, "reproductive care" and other benefits that young male soldiers don't need or want.
It makes no sense to force all young women to register for a future draft when only a small percentage of them would ever enlist. Our national defense is not enhanced by maintaining a list of millions of women who have no intention of becoming soldiers and would never be fit for combat.
The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our Nation and win wars. The goal of feminists, however, is to impose a mindless equality, regardless of how many people it hurts.
Women lack the upper-body strength that men have. Soldiers need to carry into the battlefield gear weighing 60 to 120 pounds, which is impossible for most women.
Soldiers must also move quickly while carrying these heavy loads, which creates stress for their knees and other joints. Medical studies show that women athletes have four to six times the risk of men in suffering knee injuries.
An injury on the battlefield endangers not only a soldier who is hurt, but also others around her. Studies show that men tend to spend too much time helping an injured female soldier, rather than advancing the military objectives of the battle.
Last year the Marine Corps did a study that compared the effectiveness of all-male troops to that of co-ed troops. In results that should surprise no one, the all-male units had much lower injury rates and higher overall performance than mixed-gender units.
Our national security is not served by this misguided attempt to force young women to register for a military draft. Tell your Representative and Senators to remove this offensive provision when the national defense bill comes to the floor.
Sex definitions matter in every focus of sentient beings, in every aspect of their lives. To the extent people cannot grasp this at any moment of time, you have a ready gauge of the extent of delusional orientation in any social order. Define it how you will; stand on your head or hang from a tree; the continuity of any advanced species depends upon our sexuality.
That is even more significant than the pipe dreams of Academics, grasping fantasies from the clouds.
I was in one of the first co-ed basic training companies in 1994. The girls couldn’t handle the constant loads and stress. Even the ones who wantrd to be hardcore, would wind up with a stress fracture or sprained ankles.... And we guys had to carry their rucks. One good thing- they could clean a lot better than us guys.
“Women lack the upper-body strength that men have.”
Bottom line, any policy that comes out of Washington that isn’t making America a more fierce and feared fighting force is simply BS and it is pure liberal nonsense — Pure and total BS!
In all my life I’ve never seen so many women reject femininity, and of their own accord, no less.
Likewise, I’ve never seen so many females in various walks of life this unhappy either.
Maybe it’s just a coincidence.
Women DO NOT have the upper body strength of males. -
Over 20 yrs. ago, a retired Army officer stated that when
his outfit got the bugout signal; they were unable to load
the heavy medical equipment on the trucks, so they were
never able to bug out. Majority women in his outfit.
bkmk
The Israelis discovered this early on and while they draft ALL youths, women are not allowed in combat. The rationale has to do with the size and shape of the country. It only takes one defeat to have the enemy in your street and the men are all at the front. The women will have to protect their homes. They all need to know how to shoot military weapons and not fear them.
Likewise, I’ve never seen so many females in various walks of life this unhappy either.
Maybe it’s just a coincidence.
It's no coincidence.
Read this in 1991 after the Tailhook scandal:
Given 100 males & 100 females of the same age & relative fitness, the ten strongest females are only as strong as the ten weakest males.
“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”
Those remote controlled firing turrets on the border with Lebanon are all operated by IDF female soldiers.
So if Omar & Achmed get greased by a remote fired .50 cal while trying to infiltrate, they won’t go to muzzie paradise because they were killed by women.
;^)
That works. The downside is that a few of them have been captured.
Your post runs to one of the roots of the problem, in my opinion.
Everything about the military has to do with averages, covering everything from what you can expect physically from people under extreme conditions of privation and stress, to medical care, to the right kinds of supplies that have to be delivered in the right quantities, to the right places, at the right time.
And this isn’t even addressing issues such as unit cohesion and the adverse effects on mission capability in mixed gender units.
When only one gender is involved, there is a general bell curve that covers many aspects from unit performance to supplies consumed.
When there are two genders, that bell curve looks more like a two-humped camel curve, and you have to adjust logistics and unit performance to cater to the lower of the two curves, unless you are fully prepared, in a critical combat situation, to simply abandon the performance restrictions of the lower of the two curves so as to preserve the functionality of the inhabitants of the higher curve.
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