Posted on 07/26/2017 7:22:17 PM PDT by jazusamo
President Trump on Wednesday banned transgender troops from serving in the U.S. military “in any capacity,” moving to scrap yet another of President Obama’s major legacy policies.
The dramatic reversal will bar transgender inductees and force transgender people in uniform out of the armed services, according to Pentagon sources.
Gay rights groups blasted the move as a rollback of equality, but the decision thrilled social conservatives and military readiness advocates, who said the Pentagon should focus on winning wars, not on social experiments.
“Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail,” Mr. Trump said when announcing the policy in a series of Twitter posts — an unprecedented use of social media.
The president said he made the decision after consulting with “my Generals and military experts.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later added the president’s National Security Council to the list of those consulted and said Defense Secretary James Mattis, who is on personal leave, had been notified before the announcement.
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That cultural divide is the difference between sane people and the mentally deficient.
Don’t expose the transgenders. They’re like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.
Thank God. This will reduce bigly the number of non-deployables.
The military is not a social experiment, regardless of what the Democrats think.
LOL! Right on.
President Trump didn’t expose anything. It was there for anyone who has eyes to see.
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I think the vast majority of Americans are in favor of what Trump did.
And here I thought the cultural divide was unzippered when Øbama issued the EO about school bathrooms and trannies.
Mental Illness is not allowed in the Military.
If you have a Penis and do not understand what that means,
stay in your civilian world.
Obama is the USA’s first faggot of the highest order.
Exactly if not the vast majority definitely a solid majority. Divide implies 50/50.
There Is NO “Cultural divide”! There’s just a bunch of faggots wanting the American tax payers to finance their queerbait life style!
This looks to me like another clever move by Trump that is several jumps ahead of the dems.
They are going to put their media into high gear to try to make this a major story and they will probably campaign on it heavily for 2018. What they don’t realize is that the transgender population is less than one half of one percent and the rest of the nation doesn’t give a crap about them not being fit for military service .
In the long run the dems will end up converting a lot of blue collar voters, veterans and old line democrats to Trump supporters for 2020. Their rancor might even spell doom for some (D) congressional reps in ’18.
Lol....just days after Chuck U says Dems are now going to focus on economy and away from social issues....masterful Pres Trump forces them right back to their losing social issues.
Bwahahaha.
Brilliant.
Just read that both Clinton and Obama banned transgenders in the military, but Obama undid the rule just before he left office. Trying to cause trouble.
Bump!
And won the 2020 election in one fell swoop.
That’s correct. Obama lifted the ban a year before he left office, but had it in place his first 7 years.
It’s only been lifted close to two years.
There is no cultural devide.I am willing to bet most people regard transgendered as having a psychological problem. They do not belong on the military, and I don’t want to pay for their sex reassignment surgery.
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