Posted on 07/06/2023 9:28:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Diversity is our strength. Except, apparently, the more diversity the military seeks, the less strength it requires.
That seems to be the lesson of the Army’s physical fitness standards, which do not apply to people who are getting “gender-affirming” care.
The Army obesity crisis is worse among the “diversity” hires — women, blacks, Hispanics, and transvestites.
Shocker!https://t.co/ZdRNGjckZ4
— Revolver News (@RevolverNewsUSA) July 5, 2023
One of the shibboleths of the Left is the claim that increasing the acceptance of “gender-diverse” individuals into the military merely extends the same opportunities to transgender folks as those afforded to people who identify with their natal sex (man, finding the right words is impossible when discussing these issues!).
Combine this idea with the claim that “diversity is our strength,” and you are led to believe that the military will be improved by expanding opportunities to transgender applicants.
Yeah, right. Even the Army doesn’t believe that, and they are the ones saying it.
.@USArmy Maj. Rachel Jones found solace after coming out as a transgender female. Her journey from battling depression & suicidal thoughts to embracing authenticity inspires us all. #WhyWeServe https://t.co/9llx7skuC3
— Department of Defense 🇺🇸 (@DeptofDefense) July 2, 2023
Notice that Maj. Rachel Jones is a bit…fat? Yeah, well, there is a reason for that.
Jones doesn’t have to meet physical fitness standards that apply to everybody else in the Army. Fancy that.
FYI: US service members who identify as transgender can seek an indefinite fitness standards exemption. That's how this guy managed to avoid PT.
There's an easy fix to clear these ppl out, as @Cernovich previously stated. Fitness standards for ALL service members. No exemptions.
pic.twitter.com/279sqCdRqO— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) July 3, 2023
Apparently, the military doesn’t believe that transgender soldiers are just like everybody else, and in order to keep them on active duty they have thrown standards out the window.
The military is going through a crisis with weight–since 2001 the number of soldiers who are classified as overweight has skyrocketed by over 400%, and much of that has to do with accommodating a more “diverse” military. Women, Blacks, and Hispanics have higher rates of obesity in the military than Whites do, suggesting that the standards apply differently to different categories of people.
“Diversity is our strength” seems the opposite of the truth, at least as the military seeks to achieve it.
One of the lies we are being told, relentlessly, is that when the military makes efforts to expand the types of people admitted into the services the standards applied will remain the same. This has been clearly false forever. This has been particularly true when it comes to sex differences. As we know, different standards of physical fitness are applied to men and women, in opposition to what we were told when recruitment opened up, and now we see that the standards have been changed even more drastically for transgender people.
On its face, the argument that being transgender would present no barrier to military service is absurd, simply because transgender soldiers require constant medical care in order to maintain their gender treatments. Regardless of any other potential issues, this alone should make policymakers leery of including transgender-identifying people in the rolls of active duty personnel.
The military, though, is a social scientist’s playground. Under total control of the government, it is easy to use as a laboratory for ideological experiments.
In a sense I am sympathetic to the impulse–it is just so tempting, and in some cases, the military has been a proving ground for beneficial social change. Race integration is a great example of this.
But the impulse is dangerous; it is just too tempting, and the consequences of getting it wrong are especially high. Lives are literally at stake.
Exempting an entire class of people from physical fitness standards is the opposite of proving that “diversity is our strength,” both because in this case “strength” is in this case the opposite of the truth and because it will heighten not lower resentment toward transgender people who are as usual getting a better deal than everybody else.
As you know, the military is having a recruiting problem simultaneously with the changes they have made. Any chance that the problem is related? You decide.
This is in line, though, with other claims related to transgenderism, which are all based upon the rejection of biological facts. Alphabet ideology and also critical theory is based on the idea that reality bends to our will and is infinitely flexible.
Neither is true, and that will be made abundantly clear when the bullets fly.
Our military is crap now so Uncle Sam is going to force you to join as soon as you turn 18.
Excellent for when the government decides to declare martial law with a bunch of fat faggots.
Ooh. We’ll be so scared.
Aside from all the problems present in having mentally unbalanced people who are taking drugs to weaken themselves in the armed forces, how would a lower level member of the armed forces react to such being in charge?! Major?!
Lesson # 2023 on How To Carefully Dismantle a Worldclass Military.
If this asinine policy stays in place, there is going to be an enormous amount of resentment the Normals will have against the Trans. Enormous!
This is setting those Trans up to be either bullied, treated with open disdain or simply ignored as much as possible by Normals who dont want to get in trouble. This will split any military organization in half, with each side hoping the other side fails.
The alphabet people are being trained to attack and harass Americans and it is working. Communism sucks.
The U.S. better think before jumpin’ off into another war. A parade, yes. They can do that. Wars, no friggin’ way. The Military is the new Job Corp.
“The military is going through a crisis with weight–since 2001 the number of soldiers who are classified as overweight has skyrocketed...”
Numbers at this point are not the intended issue. The first of the weight management and physical assessments problems were started right after the Vietnam action and were not based upon capacity to preform but appearance in uniform. During the drafting process the military ended up with a lot of people that didn’t want to stay in and their appearance displayed it. So the commanders in their chains were given the option of approving a person for re-enlistment based upon their opinions as to the appearance in uniform. So the appearance process of 35-11 was over ruled by 35-10. And this has been going on since the mid 1970’s.
As for physical standards, when the transition is completed for men going to women, they will, most likely, be expected to perform the PFI’s of women standards. And the women going to men will be forced to compete at the men’s standards. And those may have to be lowered for those transitioning members to be competitive as many women find it difficult to complete their PFI’s at lowered standards now.
wy69
The military’s new motto should be, “We Hire Freaks So They Won’t Kill Themselves.”
Without a doubt. WTF is going on???
How does this form a team with unity? Fatboyz don’t have to screw with a PT test and can put on all the weight they want. What happened to lead by example? A bunch of bums identifying as desk mamas. I don’t see how that helps a dude that has no self-esteem. The jackasses at the Pentagram are proving generations of soldiers were right when it comes to perverts in the military. THEY DON’T HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE IN THE MILITARY. They have to be treated differently than the way REAL SOLDIERS are treated. They aren’t cut out to be in the military. They never have been.
So the “Pride” people are a bunch of White Supremacists? Even the Africans?
Go ask Obama.
I think he knows.
You’re probably right. Obama started all of this sh*t. :-(
That was the intent. Bring the standards to crap and drive quality volunteers away and then bring back the draft to force quality draftees to serve.
That’ll work out real well during a war./sarc
If you take into account that 90-percent of 18-year olds are either obese, out-of-shape, mentally irrational, or won’t take orders from anyone...this idea of the draft won’t go far. Even if you said avoidance would get you six months of prison...it wouldn’t change results.
By 2030, I’ll predict that the Pentagon is forced into a manpower cut of 20-percent on billets...simply because they can’t fill the void.
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