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Joe Kennedy to bring transgender soldier to Trump's State of the Union
The Hill ^ | 01/28/18 | Jacqueline Thomsen

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.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; nuttyassquirrelpoop; sotu; stateoftheunion; trump
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To: Simon Green

Illegal aliens, transgenderism, and climate change: the entire democrat platform.


21 posted on 01/28/2018 4:13:06 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: Simon Green
This will surely stump the Trump. 😏
22 posted on 01/28/2018 4:13:29 PM PST by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: Simon Green

Cue the look on Jerry Seinfeld’s face as he notices “man hands”!


23 posted on 01/28/2018 4:14:17 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Simon Green

Joke Kennedy.


24 posted on 01/28/2018 4:15:02 PM PST by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: Simon Green

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.


25 posted on 01/28/2018 4:15:08 PM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: Simon Green

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.


26 posted on 01/28/2018 4:15:20 PM PST by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Simon Green

Why don’t all these damn Kennedys drink themselves to death. A family of boozing, alcoholic, drug ridden, philandering traitors.


27 posted on 01/28/2018 4:15:23 PM PST by ZULU (Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - WC)
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To: Batman11

“...Who’s driving?...”

The two nuts.... LMAO!!!


28 posted on 01/28/2018 4:15:26 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Simon Green
Whewie...... the Demoncrats have lost their collectivist mind.

Campaign memes that keep writing themselves. /sarc

29 posted on 01/28/2018 4:16:56 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Simon Green

Eww, yuck.


30 posted on 01/28/2018 4:17:07 PM PST by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: lgjhn23

At last he isn’t flying her to SOTU.


31 posted on 01/28/2018 4:17:15 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Batman11

Mr. Ben Dover....


32 posted on 01/28/2018 4:17:16 PM PST by wxgesr (I wanna be the first person to surf on another planet....)
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To: JonPreston

“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.


33 posted on 01/28/2018 4:17:24 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Simon Green

Great, a living example of why transgendered people shouldn’t be in the military.


34 posted on 01/28/2018 4:17:53 PM PST by struggle
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To: Simon Green

He plans to rape it later....


35 posted on 01/28/2018 4:18:22 PM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon
Democrats are never happy unless they turn every tradition into a three ring circus.

What do you expect? The whole rat party is one big three ring circus.

36 posted on 01/28/2018 4:20:04 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Simon Green
Image and video hosting by TinyPic Take your man hands elsewhere you dikless freak!
37 posted on 01/28/2018 4:20:16 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Beat me to it!


38 posted on 01/28/2018 4:20:29 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: Bonemaker; The Deplorable Miss Lemon

Delightful, isn’t it? And for those youngins’ who never got to see a real sideshow, the SOTU will be must viewing. DVR alert!


39 posted on 01/28/2018 4:20:38 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: Simon Green

In war, you don’t need distractions. That’s the problem with this cr**.


40 posted on 01/28/2018 4:21:50 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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