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.
Illegal aliens, transgenderism, and climate change: the entire democrat platform.
Cue the look on Jerry Seinfeld’s face as he notices “man hands”!
Joke Kennedy.
So what? The soldier is required to show absolute respect to the Commander-in-Chief. President Trump need not say anything or even acknowledge the guest.
I hope she doesn’t think for a moment the libs care about her; they have a deep hatred for our military. If she did not represent one of their special groups they would not give her the time of day. They don’t care about their special groups either, just trot them out when needed.
Why don’t all these damn Kennedys drink themselves to death. A family of boozing, alcoholic, drug ridden, philandering traitors.
“...Who’s driving?...”
The two nuts.... LMAO!!!
Campaign memes that keep writing themselves. /sarc
Eww, yuck.
At last he isn’t flying her to SOTU.
Mr. Ben Dover....
“5Excellent! Let the sideshow begin!!!”
Like the old traveling circus with the bearded hermaphrodite in the back room. Just what we need ...another freaking Kennedy, Come to think of it, Kennedys are even more bizarre than the freaks of nature.
Great, a living example of why transgendered people shouldn’t be in the military.
He plans to rape it later....
What do you expect? The whole rat party is one big three ring circus.
Take your man hands elsewhere you dikless freak!
Beat me to it!
Delightful, isn’t it? And for those youngins’ who never got to see a real sideshow, the SOTU will be must viewing. DVR alert!
In war, you don’t need distractions. That’s the problem with this cr**.
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