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.
90%……..baloney………stop with the negativity .
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Seriously? SMH.
On a positive note, if we have to ever fight our fedgov woke army, we will be able to win against many more of them.
“since 2001 the number of soldiers who are classified as overweight has skyrocketed.”
Well we (US taxpayers) will all be paying that Big Pharma cost for ozempic. Some $900 a month for 4 shots. Then who knows what the trans drugs cost.
This military deserves to die.
The Army itself says only 23% are capable if military service.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/09/28/new-pentagon-study-shows-77-of-young-americans-are-ineligible-military-service.html
Well, one has to agree: These sisde show specimens are definitely not physically fit. Believe your eyes and your brains.
We now have not a “Defenses Department, but a “Defenseless Department.”
This is how America’s ecstatic enemies without and within have succeeded in detroying the U.S. military, not so long ago the mightiest military in the world. This, plus the U.S. sending humongous amounts of the U.S.’s best armaments to Ukraine, leaving the U.S., it seems, with a scarcity left for the defense of the U.S. and/or any other allied nation.”
All animals are equal, just some are more equal than others.
Put them on point dismounted to clear for mines and snipers, I guess is the message. So standards don’t make a difference.
This kind of special treatment for trannies will increase the wall of resentment between the "real" military and the LGBTQ military...providing that there is still some remnant of the real military on active duty.
“...will be made abundantly clear when the bullets fly....”
It’s called fragging. The fags will be fragged.
Another day, another Not The Bee that should be Bee if we lived in a sane world.
I’d include fentanyl in all hormone treatment plans to solve this problem.
We may not be scared but we should never trust those mentally ill perverts to not be horribly vicious at every opportunity, because I would expect that every time.
Peach
I think I’m going to stop wearing my army hat... :(
“Well we (US taxpayers) will all be paying that Big Pharma cost for ozempic. Some $900 a month for 4 shots. Then who knows what the trans drugs cost. This military deserves to die”
Military medicine is a trade off. These people that are willing to step in front of a bullet so others can live the life they choose are worth every cent they get.
No one can make me believe that diabetes is just the outcome of wrong or too much food. It might be contributory in some cases, but in others it is not a player. Overweightness in the military was an excuse for releasing them of the job to save government money and justifying it with bad publicity. Uncle sugar bought the whole package when they drafted or enlisted the people they did for their political purposes. Then they dissected the person to get a way to cut the cost of their agenda. But in the meantime they have ignored their own rules to fill slots. I had three troops I supervised in my career that were not within the height restrictions at enlistment. One played basketball for a name university, one played in two NIT’s, and the third had a tryout with the Lakers. All were accepted into the military. One was even given the job of crawling into bomber wings to work at 6’ foot 8” plus. He lost that job at tech school and was cross trained into my career field. Outstanding troop. But they took the whole package so they kept him in because they were committed.
When I was determined to have contracted diabetes in 1987 I was consistently under 190 pounds at 6 feet one and was running 5 miles plus a day while teaching and competing at two open level anaerobic sports in handball and racquetball. I was in outstanding shape. But I was still a diabetic. And the years of the illness, one that seems to come from nowhere, have taken their toll as I now have a heart and respiratory condition that is taking its toll. My father was diabetic and no one knew until it happened.
I can’t speak for all the members that are ill with this disease, but comparing diabetes with trans actions is apples and oranges. No one wants to get diabetes. But being trans is a choice and not a medical condition. And that’s where I agree with you as not one doctor, and I think they have tried their butts off, has been able to connect homosexuality or cross gendering with DNA.
So please don’t configure the weight problems inherent to diabetes with the choices of sexual questionability. It isn’t in the same parking lot.
wy69
Correct.
The Army needs to find a better height/weight standard anyway. We had one guy (corn-fed Nebraska kid) that got dropped from our class because he didn’t pass tape. Had the best time (out of ~100 of us) on the 6-mile ruck. Pretty good PT score too, but not great enough to waiver failing height/weight :/
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