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.
Excellent! Let the sideshow begin!!!
Nothing like pandering to the .000001% transgender soldier vote.
The good news is the media’s cameras will have to zoom in on this freak as part of their in-your-face trans-jihad. Americans will be grossed out by the millions.
He makes an ugly woman.
Mentally ill used to be prohibited from the military for good reason.
Democrats are never happy unless they turn every tradition into a three ring circus.
oshit!
My congress critter here in Nor California is bringing a tranny for a date too.
The Left never gives up.
The Right needs to be as determined as the Left and more to reach our goal of restoring our Free Constitutional Republic. If we fight with resolve and faith, we’ll win.
They have no clue at all how it is that crap like THIS is the reason why Trump won and will win again in 2020.
As his date?
Not any more......you had them removed.
Just like the Academy Awards, or the National Press Club Dinner, just to name a few, the State of the Union has become an event for ridiculous grandstanding.
So, now that he is a she, and has had top and bottom (surgical) modification, does he/she prefer to date women or men, cis or trans? Just curious as to what the person being held up to us as a heroic behavioral model is like.
Who’s driving?
>> “And all of a sudden, it is all hanging in the balance.” <<
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Not anymore, apparently, after the surgery.
Now Congress is bringing dates?
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