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Jim Mattis allows transgender troops to re-enlist in military -- for now
Washington Examiner ^ | 15 September 2017

Posted on 09/16/2017 7:13:04 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

WASHINGTON — New guidance released Friday by the Pentagon makes it clear that any transgender troops currently in the military can re-enlist in the next several months, even as the department debates how broadly to enforce a ban on their service ordered by President Donald Trump.

In a memo to top military leaders, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said a high-level panel will determine how to implement Trump's ban on transgender individuals in the military. Trump directed the military to indefinitely extend the ban on transgender individuals enlisting in the service, but he left it up to Mattis to decide if those currently serving should be allowed to stay.

Members of Congress have already sent a letter to Trump calling on him to reconsider the ban.

Sen. John McCain, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Friday he backed legislation that would bar the Trump administration from forcing transgender troops out of the armed forces.

McCain of Arizona said in a statement that any service member, including those who are transgender, who meets the standards for military readiness and medical fitness should be permitted to serve.

"When less than 1 percent of Americans are volunteering to join the military, we should welcome all those who are willing and able to serve our country," McCain said.

The bill is an attempt to establish protections for transgender troops in law, cutting off Trump's efforts to kick service members out based on their gender identity. Trump tweeted in July that he would ban transgender troops from serving anywhere in the U.S. military. The directive caught the Pentagon flat-footed as defense officials struggled to explain what they called Trump's guidance.

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KEYWORDS: mattis; militarytransgenders; transgenders
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
New guidance released Friday by the Pentagon makes it clear that any transgender troops currently in the military can re-enlist in the next several months, even as the department debates how broadly to enforce a ban on their service ordered by President Donald Trump.

In other words, the Pentagon is ignoring the wishes of the Commander-in-Chief while it waits for both parties in Congress to overturn his directive.

This is the Deep State - the unelected, unaccountable federal bureaucracy that spans not only the civilian branches of government but also the military, and its enablers in both parties who are elected to the legislature. These people have power over our lives, and the nature of power is such that those who have it never willingly give it up and always try to gain more of it. These people do not care what we want - they will tell us what to think.
21 posted on 09/16/2017 8:27:45 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Fake News.


22 posted on 09/16/2017 8:31:10 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

A lot of dead sailors and airmen are spinning in their graves, you can be sure of that.

Guess it was naive to think Mattis was another General Patton.


23 posted on 09/16/2017 8:35:51 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: GOPJ

“Rome wasn’t built in a day and the Swamp won’t be drained in ‘a day’ either..”

I hear you, but the problem is we simply don’t have much time left before it’s too late. This country was hanging by a thread last November.

Therefore it may already be too late to even come close to once again being the land of the free; the home of the brave.

Soon we’ll be better off just letting it all collapse and rise from the ashes like a Phoenix; America 2.0, if you will.


24 posted on 09/16/2017 8:44:47 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

[When less than 1 percent of Americans are volunteering to join the military, we should welcome all those who are willing and able to serve our country,” McCain said. ]

Including psychopaths and gang members, right Johnnie?


25 posted on 09/16/2017 8:59:13 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

DoD should have these freak shows sign a waiver that they’ll never seek treatment at the VA for their gender confused mental illness and all its associated side effects. Better yet, don’t allow them to reenlist.


26 posted on 09/16/2017 10:12:06 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; All
"Members of Congress have already sent a letter to Trump calling on him to reconsider the ban."

I’m sure that Congress made this letter for Trump to reconsider the transgender ban while taking a ten minute break from working on bills to repeal Obamacare, simplify the tax code and build Trump’s wall. (EXTREME sarc)

In reality, patriots don’t need to be reminded that Pres. Trump is dealing with a corrupt, uniparty Congress that unquestioningly supported lawless Obama but despises Trump and his vision for MAGA.

And while Trump is getting LOTS done as president despite Congress, his first two years in office are arguably for practice.

In fact, it’s up to us patriots to help Trump “drain the swamp” by electing as many new lawmakers as we can in the 2018 elections who will support Trump.

In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots, candidates who will respect state sovereignty along with Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers when in office.

27 posted on 09/16/2017 10:38:52 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: DesertRhino

ROTFL


28 posted on 09/16/2017 10:52:08 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Blue Turtle

I think this was stated to prevent lawsuits by those in the service until the policy is changed permanently. I hope.


29 posted on 09/16/2017 10:55:21 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Not surprising. They’re banned from enlisting now, but I’ve never heard of retroactive discharges.

All we can do is hold them to normal standards and watch most of them fail b/c they were just looking for freebies or to “make a statement,” not real work.


30 posted on 09/16/2017 11:12:32 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Reno89519
Irritating that Trump’s directions are getting ignored.

They're not. At no time has Trump directed that trannies are all banned from the military. New enlistments are banned.

31 posted on 09/16/2017 11:15:02 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Future Snake Eater
Not surprising. They’re banned from enlisting now, but I’ve never heard of retroactive discharges.

We might be talking here about service members who kept their transgenderism private under the old policy, and presented themselves at work as their biological gender. Once Obama lifted the ban on trannies, they came out of the closet. Now they're faced with losing their careers over an issue that they used to keep private and had they known it would've been overturned, they never would've come out publicly in the first place.

32 posted on 09/16/2017 11:25:47 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

I agree. That’s likely why Mattis is leaving them alone for now.

Even if there is a complete ban, I still don’t see them being discharged, but who knows?


33 posted on 09/16/2017 11:47:15 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

So the logic is that enlistment is somewhere near an all time low so you invite transgenders back to distract those who are spread thin.


34 posted on 09/16/2017 8:11:29 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

And it is because of the militant feminists and transgenders and all the Leftist interference that keeps military enrollment down.


35 posted on 09/16/2017 8:12:32 PM PDT by Crucial
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