Posted on 01/26/2021 10:00:03 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
Joe Biden is overcompensating again. On Monday, he repealed Trump’s so-called transgender military ban, scoring points with LGBT activists. Before we get into that, how about a quick pop quiz?
Under whose leadership did the Department of Defense base its “report and recommendations on military service by transgender persons” on the “bedrock principle” that “any eligible individual who can meet the high standards for military service without special accommodations should be permitted to serve,” adding that “this is no less true for transgender persons than for any other eligible individual”?
Answer: Secretary Jim Mattis, under President Trump.
Who said in 1973, when asked whether homosexuals could work in the federal government, “my gut reaction is that they are security risks,” then in the 1990s backed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” legislation which prohibited military service members from being openly gay, then in the 2000s opposed the expansion of marriage beyond one-man-one-woman until an inexplicable U-turn on all things LGBT around 2012?
Answer: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., then-U.S. senator and former vice president.
Yet for some reason, the assumption today seems to be that the outgoing administration’s transgender military policy is just another example of its legacy of bigotry. The truth is rather less straightforward. Secretary Mattis did not “ban” transgender people from serving in the military, but rather reviewed and ultimately rejected the Obama administration’s 2016 policy which sought to reverse decades-long protocol in disqualifying those requiring “special accommodations.”
In 2012, the Obama administration had explicitly banned candidates with “current or history of psychosexual conditions, including but not limited to transsexualism, exhibitionism, transvestism, voyeurism and other paraphilias.” This was consistent with the categorization of “gender identity disorder” as a mental-health disorder in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
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Biden’s whole life is a PR stunt
I was lucky enough to serve under only two Commanders-In-Chief...Nixon and Ford.I would have *absolutely* deserted rather than serve under BillyBob,Osama Obama,ILLary,Plugs or Heels Up.
Article is a lie to lull you into sleep.
After the loss of Hillary Klinton, the Obummer admin tried to shove this in at the last second. It was PRIORITY ONE on every military training site and this insanity was rushed to the troops in great haste.
Trump got rid of this insanity. Now its back. Laughs in Xi and Putin.
Amen. Master of BS. His list of accomplishments couldn’t fit on a matchbook.
And what about Olympics tryouts? Gonna be real confusing.
Hello Plato’s Republic.
I have questions:
The Military has different standards for weight control and physical fitness testing.
Suppose a man, who claims to be a woman, which standards apply? The male or the female?
The insanity not only continues, it’s expanding.
Welcome to Obama’s third term... you bunch if dumb butts... ah ..... can I say “butts”?
There is a looming idiocrasy on the way. I’m not sure Technocracy is on the horizon.
Put those buzzards on point!
+1
5.56mm
You ask too many questions. You must be an insurrectionist.
Off to the gulag!
Which shows that Biden is as mentally deranged as the mentally ones he is allowing into the military.
I would be in FB jail for a month if I posted that there.
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