Posted on 01/26/2021 7:34:54 AM PST by Red Badger
Women-only teams at military schools, colleges, and service academies will have to accommodate biological men, regardless of the harm done to women.
The newly inaugurated Biden-Harris administration is off to a rocky start with military men and women. Serious affronts have come from Congress as well as the White House, adding insults to injuries with even more damage on the way.
It was bad enough when Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., insinuated during a CNN interview that most of the 25,000 National Guard soldiers deployed to guard the Capitol during the Inauguration were white males and probably Donald Trump voters, so they might be in the “class” of people who “may want to do something” to cause trouble.
Then we saw 5,000 troops banished to a cold parking garage with one electrical outlet, no Internet, two restroom stalls, and high risks of COVID. Not since former First Lady Hillary Clinton treated uniformed White House social aides like personal servants have we seen such disdain for military personnel doing their jobs.
These affronts and reported plans to keep thousands of troops in Washington, D.C. without a clear mission were exceeded by President Joe Biden signing executive orders on his first day.
As predicted, Biden issued an executive order creating special government privileges for gender identity and sexual orientation, a major policy reversal likely to affect the military first. Biden also reversed Trump’s order ending critical race theory (CRT) instruction programs in all government agencies.
This means military schools at all levels likely will introduce abrasive CRT programs that accuse non-minorities of “white supremacy” and “systemic racism.” In CRT world, denials of racism prove racism. It is difficult to imagine a more divisive way to demoralize the troops instead of uniting them as an effective, cohesive force.
President Biden is especially letting down military women, who will be ordered to share their private facilities with biological males who claim to be transgender. Directives issued during the Obama-Biden administration, such as the 2016 “Military Transgender Policy Implementation Handbook,” brushed off concerns about personal discomfort and worse. Women, said the guidebook, will just have to “get used to it.”
Eliminating any doubt, Biden’s order explicitly opens doors to sexual minorities who want “access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports” reserved for the opposite sex. Transgender ideology, which demands acceptance of the unscientific notion that gender is “designated” or “assigned at birth,” disregards psychological and biological realities.
Science shows that human DNA and chromosomes determine each person’s sex. These characteristics exist long before birth and in every cell of a person’s body.
Biological sex does not change with alterations in outward appearance, and abundant scientific research proves that men and women are different in strength, endurance, athletic prowess, and other physical attributes. Activists forget science, however, when it doesn’t suit leftist politics.
The Trump Departments of Education and Justice showed respect for women and science by supporting female athletes fighting for the right to compete against other females, not biological males. Under President Biden’s new gender order, this support will end.
Ecstatic LGBT activists insist that all government agencies must deny the science of DNA, human genetics, and physiology. Women-only teams at military schools, colleges, and service academies will have to accommodate biological men, regardless of the harm done to women.
Military women and athletes deserve respect and fair treatment, but medical issues that detract from deployability and combat readiness are even more important. Consider extensive data published in the 44-page Defense Department report, which justified the 2018 DoD policy regarding transgender people and persons diagnosed with gender dysphoria. The report followed six months of study by a panel of experts, and it cited Military Health System data gathered during the years Obama-Biden transgender policies were in effect.
During that time, 994 active-duty servicemembers diagnosed with gender dysphoria accounted for 30,000 mental health visits, and their medical costs increased almost 300 percent. In some commands operational and maintenance funds were diverted to pay for active-duty transgender servicemembers’ extensive travel to obtain specialized medical care.
Some units also had to bear high operational costs when individuals preparing for gender transition could live a double life during three to twelve months of “real life experience” (RLE) away from their jobs. In addition, sadly, service members with gender dysphoria were eight times more likely to attempt suicide than service members as a whole (12 percent versus 1.5 percent).
Individuals with gender dysphoria deserve compassion and competent psychological care, not politicized medical counselling and treatments. Such mandates disregard medical ethics, which forbid doctors to provide harmful treatments or surgeries that that will not improve and might worsen the patient’s psychological condition. Recent events suggest there will be no “conscience clauses” that respect the deeply held convictions of doctors and nurses, military chaplains, and people of faith.
On January 17, President Trump’s Acting Attorney General, John B. Daukas, issued a 22-page memorandum titled “Application of Bostock v. Clayton County.” It analyzed the Supreme Court’s landmark 2020 Bostock decision, which found that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans employment discrimination on grounds of “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.”
The ruling, inexplicably written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, did not address other issues, such as housing, education, or the military. Among other things, the Daukas Memorandum maintained that Bostock should not affect constitutional rights of religious liberty.
Incoming Biden administration officials pounced. The Daukas Memo was immediately erased from the DoJ website, including Justice Department archives. Behold Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, stuffing wrong-thinking documents right down the memory hole.
President Biden says he wants to unify the country. The new secretary of defense, Lloyd James Austin III, could have helped during his confirmation hearing by confronting Cohen’s insulting suggestion that America’s military is riddled with white supremacists. Austin could make up for that oversight by ensuring non-discrimination and recognition of individual merit, without toxic “woke” ideology dominating the Pentagon.
Elaine Donnelly is President of the Center for Military Readiness, an independent public policy organization that reports on and analyzes military and social issues. Photo U.S. National Guard photo by Sgt. Abraham Morlu, 130 Maneuver enhancement Brigade
The military seems to have an on-going problem with high suicide rates.
This isn’t going to make it better.
Come on people. If the women don’t object it’s their problem. Mine too(I’m 63).
DC elites and leftists sure hate “fly-over America,” your culture, your morality.
but they still want you to join their military, fight in their wars and occupations, both abroad - and now at home.
This nuttiness certainly won’t make recruitment any easier. Young men will quietly look elsewhere for opportunities and fulfillment, just as they’re quietly skipping college and going into business and the trades instead.
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”
― George Orwell, 1984
You and me both (also 63) can we go back into the reserves? I was in the Marine Corps, Navy ladies sure were fun in the 70s.
I did, left for Europe and do IT work, still need to finish college but Ill just do it online.
“...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Right out of the Marxist's playbook to destabilize the country. Ayn Rand was right of course.
Well I knew this would happen, Starship Troopers did predict it.
I’m glad I left the military before all this liberal crap was put in place.
Good for you! Keep reading and learning and make a productive and fulfilling life for yourself. You only get one and it flies by . . .
Can emerge please get a clue from Trump? These people are not going to try to please us.
They will not change for us.
They will not like Trump, nor us nor the military
This is not news. We needed to elect Trump. We did. We did our part. Trump did his part. He got re-elected despite everything including our government institutions being against him
These people encourage mothers, parents, to kill their babies for their own power. That’s who they are. They loathe the military.
We voted against it.
M Pompeo tweeted out a passage from Romans on Sunday this week
Read it
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Hebrews 11:1
Well none of these EOs go into effect for 30 days after they are published in the federal registry so lets see where Joe Biden is in 30 days. 🤔
hehehhehhe (in my best beavis and butthead voice)
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
The overall effect here is to drive women out of the armed forces, so perhaps Biden agrees with us hard-core conservatives that only men should be in combat, and this is his way of mostly achieving that goal, while the idiots in his base think he’s on their side.
Nobody should be voluntarily joining the military under this kind of Administration.
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