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US officials: Military concerned about transgender timeline
AP/MSN ^ | 6/30/2016 | Lolita C. Baldor

Posted on 06/30/2016 8:30:52 AM PDT by HomerBohn

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is poised to announce new rules allowing transgender individuals to serve openly in the U.S. military, amid concerns from senior military leaders who believe the department is moving too fast and has yet to resolve many details, U.S. officials told The Associated Press.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter is expected to announce the new policy this week, nearly a year after announcing his intention to make the change. The move would end one of the last bans on service in the military.

Several senior U.S. officials, however, said that while the chiefs of the military services largely back the change, they sought more time to fully develop and implement the complex new rules.

According to officials, the service chiefs asked Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to relay their concerns to Carter. A senior U.S. official told the AP that Carter met this week with his military leaders, heard their concerns, and has adjusted the timeline.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss policy decisions before they were made public.

Under the new policy, transgender individuals will be allowed to enlist in the military, and those already serving can no longer be forced to leave based on their gender identity.

Officials familiar with the new plan said people with gender dysphoria, a history of medical treatments associated with gender transition and those who have had reconstruction surgery may be disqualified as military recruits unless a medical provider certifies that they have been clinically stable in the preferred gender for 18 months, and are free of significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas. 'Also, transgender troops receiving hormone therapy must have been stable on the medication for 18 months

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
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To: Red Badger

Forget the Section 8, Klinger would get a Promotion now.


21 posted on 06/30/2016 9:14:29 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: henkster
After eight years of 0bama and four more of Clinton, I doubt our military would be able to conduct any defense of the United States. Which is the plan, of course.

They can't even get through an active shooter drill without everyone running scared and hiding under their desks.

22 posted on 06/30/2016 9:15:19 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: dfwgator

Don’t forget Catch-22.

If you are crazy you get discharged for being crazy.
If you don’t want to be in a war, you are not crazy.
So you don’t get discharged.......................


23 posted on 06/30/2016 9:18:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: HomerBohn


Vs


24 posted on 06/30/2016 9:25:01 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: HomerBohn

I think I should go to the local recruiter at age 70 and insist that if I can’t serve, they are discriminating based on age. It is the last frontier of discrimination!! (well, other than Christianity)


25 posted on 06/30/2016 9:27:23 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Like a socialist is a progressive is a liberal is a commie is a Marxist, a homosexual is a transsexual is a transgender. Same illness, different manifestation. So I guess the act of Congress covered ‘em all.


26 posted on 06/30/2016 11:19:37 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: HomerBohn

Ass Carter, a nobody appointed as Secretary of Defense, just concluded a disjointed speech stating that the transgendered perverts are to be allowed to openly flaunt their perversity and that all consideration is to be given to them in respect to recruitment.

He added that there will have to be several millions of our worthless dollars expended to have specialized medical personnel available to cope with these degenerates.

I predict bloody shower massacres.

Ass Carter. No military experience, but a Obama worshipper.


27 posted on 06/30/2016 11:39:37 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: HomerBohn

The next American president needs to fire the current Joint Chiefs, bring up officers who are loyal to this country and let them run their respective services with loyalties to their oath.

The dims want to populate our military with every kind of degenerate imaginable while our enemies train to win.


28 posted on 06/30/2016 11:56:23 AM PDT by Texas resident (Obama's enemies are my friends)
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To: HomerBohn

Yeah, ok.
Trannies can serve, says the directive, as long as they are “stable” on their [completely unnatural] hormone therapies for 18 months, and free of “significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas.”

Here’s a clue for the top brass.
A man so deranged that he doesn’t know he’s a man, or a woman who insists she’s a man who menstruates, is, by his/her nature, so significantly distressed or impaired socially, occupationally, mentally, emotionally, and every possible way, as to be inherently unqualified to serve in the military.

Please explain how a man who concerns himself with hair, makeup, and expressing his “feminity” can be an effective warrior.

Feeding massive doses of estrogen to mentally ill men, or massive doses of testosterone to women, will virtually guarantee catastrophes that no one in the chain of command should even be required to contemplate, much less mop up after.


29 posted on 06/30/2016 12:01:39 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: HomerBohn

Yeah, ok.
Trannies can serve, says the directive, as long as they are “stable” on their [completely unnatural] hormone therapies for 18 months, and free of “significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas.”

Here’s a clue for the top brass.
A man so deranged that he doesn’t know he’s a man, or a woman who insists she’s a man who menstruates, is, by his/her nature, so significantly distressed or impaired socially, occupationally, mentally, emotionally, and every possible way, as to be inherently unqualified to serve in the military.

Please explain how a man who concerns himself with hair, makeup, and expressing his “feminity” can be an effective warrior.

Feeding massive doses of estrogen to mentally ill men, or massive doses of testosterone to women, will virtually guarantee catastrophes that no one in the chain of command should even be required to contemplate, much less mop up after.


30 posted on 06/30/2016 12:03:24 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
What changed? ? Do we just have no standards for the military, so that any president or defense secretary can rule by decree??

Could it in fact have anything at all to do with the fact that he now knows he will have absolutely no opposition from the republicans in congress?

31 posted on 06/30/2016 12:40:56 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Sigh!)
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To: mumblypeg

We need people like this on the front lines to serve as cannon fodder. Persons this deranged are likely to wander out in front of our lines and draw enemy fire.

This is really a good thing.

Thanks Obama for finally making a decision that is truly good for our defenses and will keep so many of our troops from losing their limbs and their minds!

Never had a good war since the Civil War!


32 posted on 06/30/2016 2:10:08 PM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: HomerBohn

I hope you are being sarcastic.


33 posted on 06/30/2016 3:55:39 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: mumblypeg

Indeed.


34 posted on 07/01/2016 4:20:54 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: HomerBohn

Whew! :-)


35 posted on 07/01/2016 7:46:07 AM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“What changed?”

The % of the population that cared about gays in the military in 2011 vs % of the population that cares about transwhatevers in the military in 2016. Less people now care, less people will put up a stink about it?

Freegards


36 posted on 07/01/2016 7:56:47 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: HomerBohn
...The move would end one of the last bans on service in the military.

No. There is still a ban fat people, the mentally ill, handicapped, guys with long hair, drug users...the list is endless.

37 posted on 07/01/2016 8:15:16 AM PDT by TankerKC (If Mitt Romney is elected, everyone in the US will die!)
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