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White House expected to lift transgender ban in military as early as Monday
CNN ^ | January 25, 2021 | Arlette Saenz

Posted on 01/25/2021 4:39:00 AM PST by Salman

Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden is expected to repeal former President Donald Trump's ban on transgender individuals serving in the military as early as Monday, according to a source familiar with the plans.

The policy, which has been roundly derided by LGBTQ activists as cruel and irrational, was first announced by Trump in July 2017 via Twitter. The ban specifically blocks individuals who have been diagnosed with a condition known as gender dysphoria from serving with limited exceptions. It also specifies that individuals without the condition can serve, but only if they do so according to the sex they were assigned at birth.

The White House declined to comment on the plans. White House press secretary Jen Psaki had said in a statement last week that the administration would lift the ban through an executive action in the early days or weeks of Biden's presidency.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda
It's the ubiquitous anonymous source, so skepticism is called for.

Of course it's something we'd expect, but it could be CNN is trying to speed tings up rather than reporting actual news.

1 posted on 01/25/2021 4:39:00 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman
Liberals: "THE MENTALLY ILL SHOULDN'T HAVE GUNS!"

Also liberals: "LET THE MENTALLY ILL INTO THE MILITARY!"

2 posted on 01/25/2021 4:43:40 AM PST by nonliberal (Caput gerat lupinum)
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To: nonliberal

These days, much of the military is just another federal jobs program.


3 posted on 01/25/2021 4:46:49 AM PST by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: nonliberal

The Joint Chiefs of Staff are already wearing dresses and hoping Biden will sniff their hair, so it should be a smooth transition for the lower ranks.


4 posted on 01/25/2021 4:47:01 AM PST by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: Salman

White males need to boycott joining the military.


5 posted on 01/25/2021 4:51:20 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Salman

Corporal Klinger was way ahead of his time.


6 posted on 01/25/2021 5:07:19 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I'm sorry the Q thing didn't work out. We were wrong about that.)
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To: central_va

This is such a bad idea.

Trans people must stay on a regular regime of hormones in order to retain their chosen physiology.

Should a trans person be deployed to some distant conflict, the hormones that they MUST take may not be reliably available.

Trump understood this and thus issued his prohibition; for MEDICAL reasons, not because he is “anti-alphabet.”

The more nonsense I hear out of liberals, especially regarding Biden’s barrage of EO’s (one of which he had no idea why he was signing it... find the video) the more I am convinced that, as a body, they have completely checked their common sense.

If it weren’t so serious for our country, it would be hilarious to watch.


7 posted on 01/25/2021 5:11:49 AM PST by CaptainKip
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To: central_va

This is such a bad idea.

Trans people must stay on a regular regime of hormones in order to retain their chosen physiology.

Should a trans person be deployed to some distant conflict, the hormones that they MUST take may not be reliably available. This would have a negative impact on the unit’s combat readiness..which is why we have a military... to kill people and break things.

Trump understood this and thus issued his prohibition; for MEDICAL reasons, not because he is “anti-alphabet.”

The more nonsense I hear out of liberals, especially regarding Biden’s barrage of EO’s (some of which he has no idea why he is signing it... find the video) the more I am convinced that, as a body, they have completely checked their common sense.

If it weren’t so serious for our country, it would be hilarious to watch.


8 posted on 01/25/2021 5:13:53 AM PST by CaptainKip
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To: CaptainKip
Just for comparison, here is a puff piece about Germany's first transgender army commander in Deutsche Welle (the German outfit like the BBC).

https://www.dw.com/en/meet-anastasia-germanys-first-transgender-army-commander/a-51350096


9 posted on 01/25/2021 5:56:59 AM PST by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

This is my rifle
This is my gum
This is for shootin’
This is for fun........................

Looks like they will get to make up other more accurate verses
and pick their own color of rifle now.

Super

“I want a chartreuse one.”

It has to be “me!” Me! Me!


10 posted on 01/25/2021 6:01:32 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: CaptainKip

Sad indeed. There is no such thing as a “transgender” person. Period. They do not exist. Never have and never will. You can’t change your DNA by putting on a dress. It is wrong, and destructive for a society to be forced to accept such insanity. This is what departure from the Torah brings. There are some sins that are so wrong that God made them capital offenses. Those who engage in and promote them publicly are bringing a spiritual virus into society that will bring about the death of the entire society! How can it be that our leaders don’t understand this? Do we not know that Europe is dying? Dying! Their indigenous populations are shrinking and they will be gone in a generation. I can assure you that the Muslims who take their place will not tolerate perversion.


11 posted on 01/25/2021 6:07:41 AM PST by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: nonliberal

Let me get this straight. A soldier cannot be diagnosed with anxiety and take meds or will be discharged. Yet a transgender Can take hormone meds just fine.
Go figure.


12 posted on 01/25/2021 7:45:07 AM PST by midwest_hiker
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To: Salman

I remember the olden days in which a teen in trouble was given a choice by the judge. Go to prison or join the Military!


13 posted on 01/25/2021 8:01:26 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.) )
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I can’t imagine any normal person joining the military today.


14 posted on 01/25/2021 8:05:04 AM PST by jackibutterfly (May the 10 just men lacking in Sodom be found in America, for it’s sake of survival.)
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To: CaptainKip

I am sure this new rule will do wonders for unit cohesion.


15 posted on 01/25/2021 9:13:23 AM PST by JGPhila
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To: Salman

Pretty much. I saw a disgusting video of promotion and graduation ceremonies where the graduates, all obese black women, were allowed to twerk and dance to the CO who was having a good ol’ time.


16 posted on 01/25/2021 9:29:00 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes. )
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To: Salman

Hurry up Biden - flood the military with as mean freaks as you can.


17 posted on 01/25/2021 9:52:17 AM PST by NWFree
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Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on Transgender Service in the Military
Jan. 25, 2021

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2481568/statement-by-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-on-transgender-service-in/source/GovDelivery/


18 posted on 01/25/2021 10:21:42 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: NWFree

Hurry up Biden - flood the military with as mean freaks as you can.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The real crap will hit the fan when transgenders claim exemption from service in a theater of war.

Lets see if they will serve and pay the butchers bill of our ancestor’s.


19 posted on 01/25/2021 10:24:05 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: central_va

EVIL Biden making trans. etc. be “allowed” in the military!! Gays/butches/lesbian/etc. should not be in the military either!! The military is supposed to be a fighting/war force, NOT with/nor have/nor “allow”/etc. supposed “inclusion”, etc. to those who violate the laws of nature, freaks, etc.!!!!!!!!


20 posted on 01/25/2021 10:30:59 AM PST by Bill of Rights FIRST
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