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 ...
The headline is written to sound like the Pentagon is defying Trump’s orders.
GSW, I hope against hope that is the case...and that it will change.
Correct! Trump needs to make an example of some perfumed prince’s insubordination and send him/her packing to Leavenworth for some time of contemplation about following orders. It is a legal order, not following it is rank insubordination and if it is allowed to stand when will some general decide he won’t follow a Trump order to attack?
Just why would the US government want the mentally ill to be in the military? What lunacy.
We’ll never win another war with leftists in charge.
“This is Fredryka, a genderfluid person who also identifies as an uprated M1A1 Abrams.”
Fredryka responds, “Vroom! Vroom! Clank, clank, I’m a tank! See that bunker? Gunner, fire! BOOM! Target destroyed! Clankety clankety clank!”
Understandable, because EVERYONE who puts on the uniform takes the same oath. I served in uniform for 25 years, so I completely understand and agree to where you are coming from, but the hard truth is that our military institutions have turned into social engineering labs. We are in deep trouble.
Trump needs to catch on, he can Fire people.
Mattis runs the defense establishment in this country, Trump’s words mean nothing to him. Every Obama left wing social experiment remains in place at the Pentagon. What happened to Trump’s gonads? Gone missing.
Turn ‘em out to bivouac on the grounds this winter.
Start winnowing out all the parlor marshals, perfumed princes and LARP special farces.
Decadent, degenerate, and unfit.
Just one of the Crazy things Obama did before he hit the road
So tyrannical a-holes in black robes dictate military policy now?
AP, so fake news. If it were true, it would be gross insubordination. Thanks GIdget2004.
Fake news
WHO CONTROLS THE CAP-LOCKS HERE?
The title is misleading, it’s a court order that brings enlistment of transgenders into the military.
A bit or research will turn up a judge appointed by Barack Obama or Bill Clinton.
Not really
When Trump assumed power there was a very small window in which he needed to rule with an iron fist and make examples of domestic enemies in the government, press, and academia.
He chose instead to try to play the WASHINGTONIANS game, and they have been wildly successful at thwarting everything he's tried except of course, for raising taxes on middle class working families that actually pay taxes.
Failure to address the demographic changes put in place by Ted Kennedy and the communists in 1965 and accelerated by the democrats for the last 50 years, as well as continuing to allow Banksters and Crony Capitalists to set tax and fiscal policy has now ensured the destruction of the ability of the white middle class as masters of their own destiny.
We are slaves of the Washingtonians, they rule by fiat.
Elections mean NOTHING if the victors are not prepared to do what it takes to effect meaningful change.
The deep state runs really deep.
The Pentagon doesn’t have the final say.
5.56mm
You would think that the Trump administration would just go ahead and quietly implement the changes it wants to do without giving liberal judges a four-cornered document they can use as a weapon against him.
Obama let them in, Trump can just as easily keep them out.
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