Posted on 07/26/2017 6:59:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump's decision to ban transgender troops was the furthest he has waded into culture wars since taking office — and perhaps his most polarizing decision since the original travel ban. This issue had been quietly burning for months, with social conservative leaders pressing the White House on why it hadn't made a decision.
In May, the Conservative Action Project released a memo calling for Trump to end the "social engineering" of permitting transgender people to serve and paying for gender re-assignment surgeries. Influential movement leaders wondered what the heck was taking so long, why Defense Secretary James Mattis seemed to be stalling rather than reversing the Obama-era policies.
After an amendment to reverse those policies failed, House conservatives, especially Rep. Mark Meadows of the House Freedom Caucus, started threatening not to vote for the military appropriations bill unless the transgender issues were resolved.
Internally, Mike Pence, Rick Dearborn, Marc Short, Steve Bannon and Paul Teller were pushing to overturn the Obama-era policy on transgender troops. Meadows' late intervention empowered Bannon and others to make the point to Trump that the security bill, which included Trump priorities like the border wall, could be derailed unless they handled this issue now.
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Steve Bannon was a Navy lieutenant from 1976 to 1983.
As a veteran I have no problems with the transgender ban.
GOOD!
“...his most polarizing decision...”
Polarizing????
He “polarized” 0.3% of the population...
More winning
This protects RINOs from having to make a stand. This is a favor to RINOs.
I assume he’ll get something in return.
If Obama really believed in it, he wouldn’t have waited until his last days in office to order it.
This was mischief. It was never a serious policy.
We shouldn’t treat it as serious policy. No serious war-fighting army in the world wastes time worrying about stuff like this. You don’t send people with obvious mental problems into combat.
Wait, certain people here kept telling me Bannon was gone.
Excellent points! We should not get on the defensive and should point out this is a phony issue.
As a daughter of both a mother and father who were WWII veterans, I echo your sentiments.
Thank God for President Trump!
As an RA veteran, I was unspeakably happy to hear that some sanity was being restored to the Military.
Men who wear dresses or women who want penises do NOT belong in the military..PERIOD end of sTory
It wasn’t until 2016 that Obama allowed them in the military and paid their special medical needs. To hear the liberals, this is a national security crisis and our military will never win again.
And the 60 some odd million that voted for him
Spoke just this past Sunday with a 10-year Army man who had recently gone through the “Transgender awareness” sensitivity training.
Because of zhit like that he has decided NOT to make the USA his career.
Maybe now he might reconsider.
Good point......the others are those like the Hollyweird libs, Demonrats and assorted other no-counts that support these people along with the gays.
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