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Posted on 12/06/2019 7:11:23 AM PST by karpov
WASHINGTON — Nicolas Talbott, a graduate student at Kent State University in Ohio who is transgender, was told in May that because of President Trump’s transgender ban in the military, he would no longer be eligible for placement as an Army officer. He could continue participating in the Reserve Officers Training Corps program, but the benefits that he joined for — health insurance and student loan forgiveness — were no longer available to him.
“Everyone else would walk away with a job in the United States Army, and I would walk away with just more student loan debt,” Mr. Talbott said.
Mr. Talbott’s experience is just one version of a broader story unfolding across vast portions of the federal government as the Trump administration has rolled back a wide array of protections for transgender people, many of them put in place during the Obama administration. The Obama White House used its powers to declare that legal and legislative efforts to defend against sex discrimination should apply to gender identity. The Trump White House called that executive overreach — and reversed course wherever it could.
Across the country, transgender people and groups that are advocates for them have wrestled with the effect of that shift as they have learned of policy changes from the departments of Education and Labor to the departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development, from the Pentagon to the Justice Department to the Office of Personnel Management.
Last month, a United States district judge struck down a Health and Human Services Department rule that would, among other changes, expand the protections for health care workers who refuse to treat transgender patients if it clashed with their beliefs, the third judge to do so.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Doing a title search of "rollback" on Free Republic, you get lots of biased stories on actions of Trump that are good for the country.
WINNING!
Thank you President Trump!
In my opinion, the fewer people with mental problems in the military, the better.
Obama did a lot with executive orders. Like a dictator. Lots of folks that was awesome and cool.
President Trump enforces laws passed by Congress. In accordance with the Constitution. Some folks think that’s impeachable.
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Would be a good idea to require two regulations be eliminated for each new one proposed.
Reserve Officers Training Corps program benefits that he joined for — health insurance and student loan forgiveness
He enrolled for the wrong reasons. Probably would have not made a very good warrior.
Tough luck, Mr./Ms. Talbott.
He appears to be a She in need of desperate psychiatric help.
My feelings exactly!
People who join the military for any reason other than service to the country or extreme hardship (i.e. homeless, unable to feed ones self) shouldn’t be accepted.
Uh, given linguistic ambivalence these days, can we ask which way zir was biologically equipped as a result of the accident of the chromosomes contributed by his parents.
Gender dysphoria, while it may be a very real mental state, is at its base a severe mental disorder.
No different, really than a person who identifies as a horse or a chicken, and tries to fit behavior accordingly.
Cuffing nuts.
If everything from the neck down is functioning properly and you have it in your head that you’re the wrong sex then you have a mental issue. Surgery will do no good, you need therapy. I jokingly tell people that I could have a sex change but I’d make for one damn ugly woman. I’ve seen some trannys that could have used that advice.
There is no such thing as “TRANS” gender...
Mental illness is not a gender.
Do they mean “rights” or do they mean “preferences?”
This whole notion of “identifying as xxxx” is ridiculous. Now they want people to be able to “identify as” whatever race. How long then before a majority “identify as” a minority for the free benefits and affirmative action?
Article written by someone named Lola, ironic.
“but the benefits that he joined for — health insurance and student loan forgiveness — were no longer available to him.”
Good. The a United States military isn’t a welfare program for the mentally ill.
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Tough luck, Mr./Ms. Talbott.
I may get flamed to ask, but what’s in this person’s crotch? I get confused at “trans” language descriptions. Of course, I know I’m bigoted to even ask what the biological sex of an individual is nowadays. With at least 50 gender identities discovered so far, it is “bigoted” and “binary” to think of just male and female.
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