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a year ago, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the U.S. military’s ban on the open service of transgender troops was “outdated” and promised the policy would be reviewed.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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This will make America’s enemies quake....with laughter!
That Ass Carter is really something, isn’t he Barry?
Anything to destroy the reputation of the U.S. military and make them the laughing stock of the world. American soldiers dressed up like women. Nice. FUDEMS. Bass turds. This is what happens when the low info morons elect a third worlder.
“As long as they are frontline infantry no problem...”
Exactly! And let them worry about the possibility of . . . friendly fire.
Regarding the two tub-o-lards on the right side of the picture - don’t they have weight restrictions any more? Or is it nowadays that you can get as huge as you want?
Obama cries everytime he institutes a new destructive policy. He looked like he was goimg to hurl wlin revulsion when he became President.
The sad thing is now, Klinger would be swept right INTO the army wearing that stuff, the exact opposite of his intentions.
Really disgusting how this society is turning (inside) out.
Yes, very lost and sad. A tragedy that is celebrated by the media.
One more Obamination for Trump to rectify.
How about they be hostages and we threaten to shoot them if the enemy doesn’t surrender.
worked in Blazing Saddles :)
I don't see why not. If one gets beyond the platitudes of propaganda -there never was a ban on gays; hell, the 'gays' can not be identified objectively, the science supports no such 'gay' species fallacy. The military banned homosexual activity, primarily sodomy, that is what was was changed and that is what can be changed back BECAUSE unhealthy disordered sodomy contributes nothing to military effectiveness; rather, it diminishes military effectiveness.
Isn’t that special to have in the military some sick perverts ? The Chinese will do the sex change for them easy. This madness is about to end. You are pissing us off. You don’t want to piss us off.
I really don’t think BO is idealogical on any of this, he just wants to piss us off, and then be able to call us bigots.
Geez. As if they don’t have enough to keep them on alert. This is probably the stupidest decision that has ever been made concerning our troops.
I agree. He is a moslem. He has always been a mosle, I did not think so 8 tears ago. I was wrong. The best thing we can do now is elect Donald J Trump and prosecute these bastards with no mercy.
Active Duty ping.
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