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a year ago, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the U.S. military’s ban on the open service of transgender troops was “outdated” and promised the policy would be reviewed.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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In about a 100 yrs from now historians will look back and point to the obama regime as the end of the US.
Muslim historians, sifting through the ruins.
As long as they are frontline infantry no problem...
So the military spends thousands of dollars to train up a soldier to tote heavy weights over long distances in inclement weather and then shoot at a target with great accuracy. Then they allow this soldier to start a regimen which will decrease his physical aptitude.
How stupid and wrongheaded is that?
So what is the lesbian on the left doing hanging out with trannies?
I will not serve ever in fedgov army.
They are the occupying roman army. I will be with the patriot militias and cell groups.
those four don’t look like front line troops...they look like human relations compliance officers
LOL!
Bflr
Dykes on Hikes.
The Navy pervs will be friggin’ in the riggin’
...pretty high on TRUMP's to trash list
Who are they?
Oh, what a disgrace.
Is that Bruce Jenner? Such lost, sad eyes.
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