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Pentagon says transgender people can elist in military despite Trump opposition
Star Tribune/AP ^ | 12/11/2017 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

Posted on 12/11/2017 10:23:03 AM PST by GIdget2004

A Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that transgender people can enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, despite President Donald Trump's opposition.

The new policy reflects growing legal pressure on the issue and the difficult hurdles the federal government would have to cross to enforce Trump's demand to ban transgender individuals from the military. Two federal courts already have ruled against the ban.

Potential transgender recruits will have to overcome a lengthy and strict set of physical, medical and mental conditions that make it possible, though difficult, for them to join the armed services.

Maj. David Eastburn says the enlistment of transgender recruits will start Jan. 1 and go on amid the legal battles. The Department of Defense also is studying the issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: davideastburn; homosexualagenda; militaryreadiness; obamagenerals; obamalegacy; pentagon; transgender; trumpdod
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1 posted on 12/11/2017 10:23:04 AM PST by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

I call BS and Fake News


2 posted on 12/11/2017 10:24:19 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: GIdget2004

Headline should be “Enlist”. Sorry for the typo.


3 posted on 12/11/2017 10:24:21 AM PST by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

Disgraceful.


4 posted on 12/11/2017 10:24:44 AM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: GIdget2004

The Pentagon says screw the country.


5 posted on 12/11/2017 10:24:53 AM PST by onedoug
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To: GIdget2004

>>Potential transgender recruits will have to overcome a lengthy and strict set of physical, medical and mental conditions that make it possible, though difficult, for them to join the armed services.

mental conditions?

“OK. So you are a man who was born a woman and you still have a vagina? Well, that’s all we needed to know. Thanks for applying. We’ll let you know.”


6 posted on 12/11/2017 10:25:51 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: DannyTN
Just saw this
7 posted on 12/11/2017 10:26:10 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: GIdget2004
Commander-In-Chief Trump needs to REASSERT his supreme authority over our military AND START SH*T-CANNING GENERALS!!!!
8 posted on 12/11/2017 10:27:27 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: onedoug

Pentagon tells CIC “FU.”

How, exactly, does that work? Who is in charge?


9 posted on 12/11/2017 10:27:35 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: GIdget2004

I believe that all Trump requested, was a stay of the implementation to force transgender acceptance until after the first of the year.

This announcement stating the pentagon will do what it wants after the first of the year, is ridiculous.

If there was a source, it needs to be found out and that person should lose their career over this.


10 posted on 12/11/2017 10:27:42 AM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: GIdget2004

OF COURSE THEY CAN!

But they cannot expect any special treatment for their transgenderism.


11 posted on 12/11/2017 10:28:19 AM PST by RepRivFarm ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell)
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To: GIdget2004

Who is commander in chief?


12 posted on 12/11/2017 10:28:24 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The CIC IS THE PRESIDENT. And WHO tf CALLS THE SHOTS HERE??


13 posted on 12/11/2017 10:28:35 AM PST by beergarden
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To: GIdget2004

I can see it now, some wizard in the Pentagon decides that they can increase equipment numbers by recruiting people who “identify” as certain types of military hardware.

“This is Fredryka, a genderfluid person who also identifies as an uprated M1A1 Abrams.”


14 posted on 12/11/2017 10:29:04 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

So the courts run our military now? If true, WE ARE DOOMED AND WILL NEVER WIN ANOTHER WAR.


15 posted on 12/11/2017 10:29:16 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: GIdget2004

Major *ickhead said what?


16 posted on 12/11/2017 10:29:23 AM PST by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: GIdget2004

Does every agency in this government tell their boss, President Trump, to go f*ck himself? I end up wondering just where the power in Washington really resides.


17 posted on 12/11/2017 10:29:49 AM PST by vette6387
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To: GIdget2004

Mine finders


18 posted on 12/11/2017 10:29:53 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: GIdget2004

Commander in chief is not in charge, military loyalists want Lord King Obama back.

This ain’t a junta. FUBO


19 posted on 12/11/2017 10:30:28 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: GIdget2004

What does Commander In Chief mean? Since when do the COURTS decide who is qualified to serve in the military. This has to be more FAKE NEWS.


20 posted on 12/11/2017 10:32:35 AM PST by Dapper 26
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