Trump Bans Transgenders In Military
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 5 months ago
NYT:
President Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States will not “accept or allow” transgender people in the United States military, saying American forces “must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory” and could not afford to accommodate them.
Mr. Trump made the surprise declaration in a series of posts on Twitter, saying he had come to the decision after talking to generals and military experts, whom he did not name.
“After consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.”
The sweeping policy decision reverses the gradual transformation of the military under President Barack Obama, whose administration announced last year that transgender people could serve openly in the military. Mr. Obama’s defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter, also opened all combat roles to women and appointed the first openly gay Army secretary.
Note how he has couched this – very smartly, in my opinion. We cannot afford to accommodate them.
That’s how the Marine Corps sees everything. If you come into the Marines left-eye dominate, they put a patch over your left eye (for a while) and reprogram you to be right-eye dominate. I know this because my son did this to his “boots” who were left eye-dominate.
They don’t even accept left handed shooting. They value sameness and likeness above everything. Everything. If you don’t like that, then go find your warfighting capabilities somewhere else. There’s a right way to do this, and the Marine Corps has found it.
On July 26, 2017 at 12:36 pm, roadgeek said:
NYT commenters not at all happy.
On July 26, 2017 at 12:40 pm, Herschel Smith said:
To the NYT commenters (and writers), the military is just another grand social program. Everything is a social program or a public works project.
On July 26, 2017 at 3:51 pm, Phil Ossiferz Stone said:
Women and queers n combat arms next, please. The rates of same sex rape have trebled since DADT was repealed.
On July 26, 2017 at 8:47 pm, Fred said:
I can distinctly remember having plenty to do and more than enough critical items to fully occupy my mind and my time when I worked for the DoD both active duty and later under other tasks. I don’t remember having time and brain cycles to worry about what the damned (used properly) sodomites were doing running around with who, in what capacity and when, where, and why nor under what circumstances they would, might, or could drop trow.
Ps. They are going to HELL and it’s a damn (used properly) shame that our government edicts encourage it. The lessons coming to America will be, I suspect, rather ugly indeed.
On July 27, 2017 at 12:22 pm, June J said:
What Fred said.
On July 27, 2017 at 11:50 pm, DAN III said:
In January 2017 CNN reported females being assigned to 1-8 Infantry as 0321s. So much for USMC values of “sameness and likeness”, eh ?
It is not about winning wars. It is about social justice.
On July 30, 2017 at 8:39 pm, Ned said:
This is a big hint to the General staff – stop using the military for virtue signalling.