Posted on 06/24/2016 4:35:20 PM PDT by drewh
The Defense Department has been reviewing the policy for nearly a year
Nearly a year ago, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the U.S. military’s ban on the open service of transgender troops was “outdated” and promised the policy would be reviewed. Advocacy groups had grown impatient in the early months of this year, but a report late Friday indicates their wait is almost over.
USA Today, citing an unnamed Department of Defense official, reports the ban will end on July 1 and that Pentagon officials are gathering to finalize the details in the coming days. Individual branches of the armed services would have a year to implement new policies. A study commissioned by the Department of Defense and conducted by the RAND Corporation found that there “would be few hurdles to allowing transgender people to serve openly,” the New York Times recently reported.
Estimates of how many active duty military members identify as transgender are wide-ranging educated guesses, given that this is not information that the federal government collects. The RAND study estimated that only about 2,500 of the 1.2 million active duty members are transgender, while a study by UCLA’s Williams Institute estimated the number to be 15,500, in addition to 134,300 veterans.
Advocacy groups reacted to the news on Friday with approval. “This final remnant of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will now be put to rest. This decision is a great victory for the many trans people who have served and sacrificed in the military over the years,” the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Victoria Rodríguez-Roldán said in a statement. “They also served in fear of being discharged from the service for simply being who they are. Thankfully this now will change.”
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7.5 years of empowering, defending and helping to spread radical Islam while kicking the legs out from the USA on every single level. This is just one more example of that by the Islamic enemy agent Democraps had the brilliant idea to elect twice into office while the Democrat operatives posing as Republicans in the Republican party neutralized any attempts to remove him from office or even speak of it. That is THE truth of these past 7.5 years.
That has to be from a Saturday Night Live skit. Right?
The purpose of the military is to protect the US and further its national interest by killing people and breaking things, not to further the immorality of mentally ill individuals.
The Air Bull Queer Calvary and the Navy Carpet Seals.
Just wonderful.
Obama is turning the military into eHarmony for perverts.
A romantic thought.
But back to the ongoing war we've been in since the French Revolution: Opportunities like this don't come every day. Now is the time to take names.
This is insanity on steroids.
If it requires admittedly radical “surgery,” and perpetual follow up with hormone treatment, then it’s a disorder. What else requires such TREATMENT?
How old are those queers?
The next question is, is this overrunning of the military by Leftists reversible.
If not, we are absolutely dead as a nation.
The next seven months are going to feel like seven long, unpleasant years, aren’t they?
The last 7 1/2 years have been an SNL skit.
They’ll have to dumb down basic training to accommodate the
queers.
Looks like a scene from a Monty Python skit.
Where's all the FReepers who wanted us to go to war against Russia over Ukraine?
Anyone still think we can beat them?
And all the tranny ops the taxpayer can pay for!
And Max Klinger never did get that Section 8...
Sure. Just wait until ISIS starts running things. They won't put up with any of this homo shit.
That’s right. Shock troops ! First to fight !
Ironically, that might be a blessing in disguise.
Check this out;
http://www.military.com/benefits/military-pay/allowances/clothing-allowances.html
Uniform clothing allowances are more for women.
So what if a fruit doesn’t feel like a woman that day? What uniform regulations do they follow? Men’s? Women’s? Mix and match?
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