Posted on 08/26/2017 5:07:04 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: Pure prejudice driving Trumps transgender military ban
By John Bowden - 08/26/17 04:53 PM EDT
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tore into President Trump on Saturday for directing the Pentagon to ban transgender individuals from entering the military.
Pelosi wrote on Twitter that Trump's "cruel decision to kick transgender troops out of the military is driven by nothing more than pure prejudice."
Other Democrats such as Sen. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), an Army veteran, and Republicans including Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), who chairs the Armed Services Committee, have criticized the directive from Trump released Friday.
McCain argued that "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."
Meanwhile, Duckworth called the ban on transgender individuals enlisting in the armed forces "disruptive" and said it would harm military readiness.
"If the President enacts this ban, which would harm our military readiness, the Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who oppose this discrimination must enact legislation that prevents it from taking effect," Duckworth said Friday.
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These people know nothing about the military. Duckworth and McCain, at least, should know better.
Nancy - we taxpayers don’t want to have to pay for their gender rearrangement surgeries to the tune of millions.
Perhaps that is the problem and it has nothing to do with prejudice.
People on the other side have to start making people like Duckworthless explain how this ban impacts readiness. I’m not buying it.
- "Transgenders"
- Homosexuals
- Pelosi
- ALL DEMOCRATS!
With vets dying in waiting rooms we have to waste precious medical dollars to cut the nut sack off someone who needs a psychiatrist?
Yes - Exactly my point!!! You said it better than I (LOL).
Seriously, this is complete insanity. It is not even a viable subject for conversation.
Pure botox fuels the pea-brain in Nanzi’s shrunken head.
I recently heard someone say that because transgender persons require daily medication to maintain their transgender characteristics, etc., it is dangerous for them to be in a combat situation where they may not have access to their medications because of a loss of supplies or long term deployment where such medications may not have the correct storage available to keep such medications from going bad because of temperature, etc. If this info is true, then it is for their own health that they would not be allowed to serve, since it would be a health deferment nothing else.
They should not discriminate people who have flat feet.
“should be permanently committed to a santitairum”
The DEMOCRATS had them closed down, Years ago. Do not think that was not part of a larger plan! ;)
Average Transgender Soldier Unable to Deploy for 238 Days
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3580437/posts
The military is not the place for social experimentation.
And no matter which way these nut cases “choose”, the end results will NOT be warrior material.
No, they don’t want unstable people jeopardizing the safety of our combat troops.
Why does an 80 year old hag care about this?
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