Trump: Military ‘Will Not Accept or Allow’ Transgender People
The military “cannot be burdened with tremendous medical costs and disruption.”
President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that the military “will not accept or allow” transgender people:
“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. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you”
After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
….Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
….victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter under President Barack Obama “issued a directive last year that permitted transgender troops to serve in the military, and to undergo reassignment surgery.”
Congress has started to look over a spending bill for the Pentagon worth almost $700 billion. The New York Times reported that Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) “has proposed an amendment that would bar the Pentagon from spending money on transition surgery or related hormone therapy.”
That same measure failed in the House earlier in July because some Republicans sided with “Democrats to reject it.” Conservative Republicans have insisted “they would not support the military spending measure without the language banning money for gender transition.”
The Hill also reported that “approximately 250 transgender people now” serve “openly in the U.S. military.”
Of course the left has erupted on social media:
Transgender students? Fuck ’em.
Transgender patients? Fuck ’em.
Transgender patriots? Fuck ’em.
That’s the Trump administration.
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) July 26, 2017
America voted for intolerance and that’s what it got.
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) July 26, 2017
Trump’s ban on transgender military service is one of his pettiest moves yet. You know he doesn’t care, but he knows bigots will love it.
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) July 26, 2017
History shall record that you are not only the stupidest, most incompetent president ever, but also the cruelest and pettiest. #Shame pic.twitter.com/8R4jVOIYmd
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 26, 2017
Are you TRYING to be an asshole? https://t.co/QW9axAScmO
— Andy Cohen (@Andy) July 26, 2017
John Hayward at Breitbart News has an excellent point:
“Makes sense,” vast majority of middle America will say, and go on about its day, while Twitter blows like Mount Vesuvius https://t.co/gn3X2m5uU3
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 26, 2017
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Comments
Thank God we can get the military back to a sense of normalcy and focus on the hordes at the gates.
Trump says the main reason is financial, but the comments here support him as if he said it’s a psychological disorder.
By using the financial argument, Trump not only pointing out the unnecessary taxpayer burden trannies in the military would cause, but he is also trying to defuse the emotional argument that transgendered have a mental problem.
Trump will say whatever you want him to say, you just have to let him talk long enough.
Financial reasons are good enough.
now local idiots trying to say viagra type pills being paid for are issue even though only approx 10% of active duty get them and for most that do (active or not) its often due to vascular/prostate/nerve issues.
they don’t even read the studies they link to
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/07/26/politics/trump-no-transgender-people-will-serve-in-u-s-military/comments/
my comments to one idiot down on page
Trump is just killing off another rattlesnake that Obama turned loose before he left.
It’s a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t situation. I’m just tired of military personnel being treated like lab rats in a behavioral science lab.
George Takei tweeted back to Trump that he just pissed off the wrong people. My informal anecdotal evidence of how many people were actually pissed off came on the SF local news last night.
The news report showed a crowd of people gathered at the plaza at the intersection of Castro, Market and 17th streets, which is ground zero for all LBGT demonstrations. The crowd was very much smaller than I expected with minimal spillover into the streets from the plaza.
It begs the question: What would Patton do?
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