Reading all the different stories, it appears that what Team Trump is attempting to do is make sure that those who want to use the military as a way to get free medical treatment and even sex reassignment surgery, along with those with serious medical issues (who are denied under Pentagon rules to start with for all citizens), are not allowed to serve in the military
(Politico) President Donald Trump on Friday issued orders to ban transgender troops who require surgery or significant medical treatment from serving in the military except in select cases — following through on a controversial pledge last year that has been under review by the Pentagon and is being fought out in the courts.
The memorandum, which drew swift condemnation from gender rights groups, states that while the secretary of defense and other executive branch officials will have some latitude in implementing the policy, “persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria — including individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery — are disqualified from military service except under limited circumstances.†(snip)
“The experts’ study sets forth a policy to enhance our military’s readiness, lethality, and effectiveness,†it continued, adding that officials “concluded that the accession or retention of individuals with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria — those who may require substantial medical treatment, including through medical drugs or surgery — presents considerable risk to military effectiveness and lethality.â€
“This new policy,” the White House statement added, “will enable the military to apply well-established mental and physical health standards — including those regarding the use of medical drugs — equally to all individuals who want to join and fight for the best military force the world has ever seen.”
Getting through all the hoopla and fearmongering, the military doesn’t allow other citizens to join if they have serious medical and/or mental health issues to start. They wouldn’t let you join if you have an issue which would require surgery to fix, nor if you have a mental health issue which would make it hard for you to do the job or put the lives of other troops in danger. This is just codifying it for the gender confused.
LGBT advocates who have sought to head off such a move in the courts swiftly slammed the decision, calling it “appalling, reckless and unpatriotic.â€
“Donald Trump and Mike Pence are literally wreaking havoc on the lives of our military families,†said Ashley Broadway-Mack, president of the American Military Partner Association. “This unconscionable attack on our military families cannot stand — we refuse to allow it.â€
We keep being told that TGs amount to .02% of the population. What’s the big deal? You’re entitled to your views and your lunacy, but the rest of us are not required to participate.
(Breitbart) The Pentagon’s rejection of the transgender ideology pushed by Obama is a huge win for the feminist and conservative groups who want to preserve the legal and civic distinctions between the two equal, different and complementary male and female biological sexes.
The rejection of Obama’s policy prompted emotional protests from progressives who wish to outlaw and stigmatize the distinctions between women and men, and between girls and boys. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House’s minority leader, described the revived policy as a “hateful†insult to “our brave transgender members of the military who serve with honor & dignity.â€
In their immediate response, progressive advocates tried to smear Trump’s defense of sexual distinctions as “bigotry.†They did not try to make any substantial arguments why Americans should agree to the transgender demand that people can change their legal sex by simply declaring themselves to be members of the other sex.
Of course they don’t. What argument is there? If someone has a mental illness, we should be offering treatment, not condoning it. Democrats condone this particular one. They never really give a rational, cogent, adult reason for it. Just unhinged feelings based rants.
The military is here to defend the nation, not coddle people with mental issues and provide free surgery.
