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Pelosi: ‘Pure prejudice’ driving Trump’s transgender military ban
The Hill ^

Posted on 08/26/2017 5:07:04 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Pelosi: ‘Pure prejudice’ driving Trump’s 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dopeydems; homosexualagenda; militaryreadiness; pelosi; trumpdod
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1 posted on 08/26/2017 5:07:04 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

These people know nothing about the military. Duckworth and McCain, at least, should know better.


2 posted on 08/26/2017 5:09:34 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


3 posted on 08/26/2017 5:10:06 PM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: Sub-Driver

People on the other side have to start making people like Duckworthless explain how this ban impacts readiness. I’m not buying it.


4 posted on 08/26/2017 5:11:29 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: Sub-Driver
I'm for a ban on all mentally defective people in the US Government!

- "Transgenders"
- Homosexuals
- Pelosi
- ALL DEMOCRATS!

5 posted on 08/26/2017 5:14:17 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: stonehouse01

With vets dying in waiting rooms we have to waste precious medical dollars to cut the nut sack off someone who needs a psychiatrist?


6 posted on 08/26/2017 5:17:57 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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Yes - Exactly my point!!! You said it better than I (LOL).


7 posted on 08/26/2017 5:20:30 PM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: Sub-Driver
The transgender in the military subject is so f@ing completely insane I honestly think people who seriously debate it as something viable should be permanently committed to a santitairum before they hurt themselves or someone else.

Seriously, this is complete insanity. It is not even a viable subject for conversation.

8 posted on 08/26/2017 5:21:27 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Pure botox fuels the pea-brain in Nanzi’s shrunken head.


9 posted on 08/26/2017 5:24:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Perfect example of the left today. they have no solutions to anything, they just yell transphobe, racist, sexist, homophobe and all the rest at people.
10 posted on 08/26/2017 5:25:15 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals are pulling jenga pieces out of western civilization, how long before it all falls?)
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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.


11 posted on 08/26/2017 5:26:53 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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They should not discriminate people who have flat feet.


12 posted on 08/26/2017 5:29:29 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Caipirabob

“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! ;)


13 posted on 08/26/2017 5:29:50 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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Average Transgender Soldier Unable to Deploy for 238 Days

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3580437/posts


14 posted on 08/26/2017 5:30:32 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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The military is not the place for social experimentation.


15 posted on 08/26/2017 5:34:18 PM PDT by SkyDancer (There Are Three Great Ways To Perfect Landings - Unfortunately We Pilots Don't Know Them.)
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To: stonehouse01

And no matter which way these nut cases “choose”, the end results will NOT be warrior material.


16 posted on 08/26/2017 5:37:59 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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Subverts military readiness due to lost time. And, pretty sure I don't want to pay for it. If you want to mutilate yourself.......YOU can pay for it. 👹🔪💉💊
17 posted on 08/26/2017 5:43:18 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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No, they don’t want unstable people jeopardizing the safety of our combat troops.


18 posted on 08/26/2017 5:44:27 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why does an 80 year old hag care about this?


19 posted on 08/26/2017 5:53:12 PM PDT by hattend
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Ten bucks says that nobody in this pig's family has served in the Armed Forces in five generations.Lots of doctor's notes,don't you know.Perhaps even notes confirming life-long sexual perversions.
20 posted on 08/26/2017 5:54:50 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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