Posted on 01/28/2018 4:04:26 PM PST by Simon Green
Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.) has invited a transgender soldier to President Trump’s first State of the Union in protest of the administration's attempt to ban transgender people from the military.
Staff Sgt. Patricia King will be the lawmaker's guest to Trump’s address, according to The Boston Globe.
King told the Globe that she realized she was a transgender woman while serving in the military, and soon came out to her family.
Trump announced last year that he was banning transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. However, courts have halted the ban and transgender people were allowed to enlist starting Jan. 1.
“I have served for almost 19 years,” King told the Globe. “And all of a sudden, it is all hanging in the balance.”
King also told the publication that she was the first service member to have her gender reassignment surgery paid for by the military.
“There are much easier ways to get surgery covered than enlisting in the military, [facing] the possibility of deployment, and dealing with the stigma of being a transgender service member,” she said. “Every one of us who raises our right hand is prepared to give everything in the defense of our country.”
Kennedy, a rising star in the Democratic Party who will deliver the party's response to Trump’s address, told the paper that he invited King to remind the president of transgender service members' dedication to the U.S.
“I want her to be there as a real person, and the face of an inhumane policy,” Kennedy said.
Trump will deliver his first State of the Union on Tuesday night.
Is Patricia pregnant with Joe’s child?
Or Joe Kennedy da Turd.
Most Kennedys addicted to booze or drugs; bad decisions (JFK Jr in a plane), do you know who I am? attitude.
Dems show diversity by giving response slot to rich white male.
“Don’t forget Jimmah”
Yeah, and while were at it the biggest POS of the lot, LBJ!
WHAT THE HEWLL IS THAT@!!! Let the Democrat CIRCUS BEGIN!!!! Douches.
idiot.
Joe Kennedy is a chromosome denier. He doesn’t believe in science.
What a joke. Dems don’t want us having families so they push transgenderism. Also they have a newly minted voting bloc. Bring in a transgendered soldier and they have their perfect shield they can hide behind.
Nice to see the DNC still working hard to throw away flyover country.
Yeah. People hate that stuff.
19 years in the Army and only an E-6? To me that says a lot.
Good Lord. This is twilight zone crap.
I thought Trump was the Commander-In-Chief. I’m pretty sure military behavior restrictions are fully constitutional, so WTH is going on here?
Man.. you got that right!
The Democrats are going to go over like a cement cloud with the American public.
Yeah, he still looks like a man, but his hands! Definitive man hands. Wonder when trannies will demand the government pay for hand transplants?
Kennedy, with his obscene and indecent stunt, is one of many trying to disrupt the State of the Union Address.
If Trump is smart, he won’t go near the subject. Make the Media have to show the transgender soldier on camera out of context so people can ask, why do they keep pointing the camera there?
I’ll bring Mary Jo Kopekne, the female killed by your uncle. Ok, jackass?
That’s not a chick. It’s an ugly-ass dude with Bogoboobs.
Don’t call it “her”, or “she”. It’s not and never will be.
I agree. It seems that ‘cutting and mutilating’ are things done by people who need counseling, Jesus Christ for inner healing, and to find their true purpose in life. It takes many forms, and end result for a few is suicide, especially when to the extreme of TG.
I see rings in nose, and belly buttons, tattoos, and I have family members who have those....a form of cutting/mutilation. Then the publicity the Dems/left are using to push them out in pubic will in end cause tragedy for some... Using hurting people for a political end is despicable1
SOTU’s are no places for protests.
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