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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: Vision

61 posted on 01/28/2018 4:34:53 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: Simon Green
So much for the infantry badge democrats. Whats next on your bucket list?


62 posted on 01/28/2018 4:35:09 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: tumblindice
Joe Kennedy.....pride of the Bay State.


63 posted on 01/28/2018 4:36:10 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

Does anyone other than people on the far left really worry about transgender “rights?”


64 posted on 01/28/2018 4:38:25 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Which Democrat will bring Lindsey Graham as his date to the Tranny Ball?


65 posted on 01/28/2018 4:39:03 PM PST by TigersEye (A Russian Bot is a Russian Bot to his last dying day!)
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Democrat Thug Party exploiting mental illness.


66 posted on 01/28/2018 4:39:07 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: cotton1706

Which appeals to maybe 10% of Americans, if not less.


67 posted on 01/28/2018 4:39:10 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Simon Green

Maybe Trump should respond by posting a big sign “Remember Mary Jo”.


68 posted on 01/28/2018 4:39:22 PM PST by euram
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To: Bonemaker

UH...I think Daddy K was a puke, too...


69 posted on 01/28/2018 4:39:49 PM PST by goodnesswins (There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
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To: Simon Green

Kennedy men will date anything. I would rather see this mentally ill man get help, but I don’t wish him ill. I hope this soldier is smart enough not to accept a ride from any Kennedy.


70 posted on 01/28/2018 4:40:24 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: KevinB

They only pander since it keeps the country divided ... Female Democrat voters eat this stuff up and it keeps their base intact. Believe me, democrats will want them euthanized should they ever win ‘people’s glorious revolution”. Remember, it’s never about people with democrats, it’s always about ways to attain and maintain power.


71 posted on 01/28/2018 4:41:21 PM PST by edh
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To: Simon Green
The left are the same in America, across the world, and through out history. Nasty, unstable, perverted tyrannical m-fers who are at at war with human nature & natural law. The root of totalitarianism. When you let the left build up a head of steam with no constraints-->Stalin, hitler, mao, castro, pol pot...

The Soviet Story [YouTube video 1:25:34 mins]

72 posted on 01/28/2018 4:45:08 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Monterrosa-24
"she was the first service member to have her gender reassignment surgery paid for by the military."

As you said, this isn't being paid for "by the military".

It's an *elective* mutilation paid for by the TAXPAYERS.

And not a one time procedure, "she" will require expensive, life-long hormone treatments.

73 posted on 01/28/2018 4:46:38 PM PST by boop ("So much wasted time"-David Cassidy)
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To: Electric Graffiti

He still looks like a he.


74 posted on 01/28/2018 4:46:39 PM PST by umgud
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To: Simon Green

So I gather the state of the union address is going to be a big freak show.


75 posted on 01/28/2018 4:49:30 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: Simon Green

of course his/her name is "Pat"...

76 posted on 01/28/2018 4:50:19 PM PST by bitt (We dont need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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To: Simon Green

Bring all you want. It is still wrong and evil.


77 posted on 01/28/2018 4:50:30 PM PST by mulligan (The)
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To: Rebelbase

Are the Kennedys inbred or something?
It isn’t even this weird in the hills of Arkansas.


78 posted on 01/28/2018 4:50:41 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Simon Green

Ah, a believer in science!


79 posted on 01/28/2018 4:51:06 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Q is Baron Trump, time-traveling back from the future, to help his dad set things right.)
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To: umgud

Of course he “still looks like a he”

You don’t seriously believe someone can change, do you?


80 posted on 01/28/2018 4:51:38 PM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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