Posted on Jul 26, 2017
Trump to reinstate US military ban on transgender people
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No doubt if POTUS has his way . . . disabled, women, racial minorities, religious minorities, lesbians, and gay men will be removed from our military - one group at a time - so that only straight white men will be allowed to serve. Remember the old anti-nazi school poem . . . first they came for . . . and I did not speak out because I was not . . . then they came for me . . . and there was no one left to speak out. My opinion is POTUS does not have the authority to make this decision . . . it is entirely inconsistent with General Mattis and many other military leaders decision to study the issue for the next six months . . . it is merely POTUS knee jerk reaction . . . and it is entirely likely congress and the courts may act to restrain POTUS knee jerk reaction . . . on constitutional equal protection and numerous other grounds. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)
Update: Keep in mind not all transgender serrvicemembers are transsexual. Only about 6,000 out of 1,400,000 (0.043%) of transgender citizens seek transsexual surgery each year - meaning that if there are 6,000 to 15,000 transgender service members then only 3 to 7 service members are at all likely to seek transsexual surgery each year.
Update: Keep in mind not all transgender serrvicemembers are transsexual. Only about 6,000 out of 1,400,000 (0.043%) of transgender citizens seek transsexual surgery each year - meaning that if there are 6,000 to 15,000 transgender service members then only 3 to 7 service members are at all likely to seek transsexual surgery each year.
Trump to reinstate US military ban on transgender people
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Everybody is a Nazi these days and a Constitutional Scholar to boot on RP. The President is the Commander and Chief of the Military. Period, end of debate. Move on.
Also, for FYI, we have three branches of government. See Articles I,II, and III, of the Constitution. The President is the person in charge of the Executive Branch. The other two branches are co-equal branches. It is funny when we have a Socialist in the White House they can do no wrong. Lets give them all the power they want. Don't like Immigation Laws, make up your own. Don't like Reporters getting dirt on you sick the FBI on them and their Parents. Don't like guns, ship a couple hundred off to Mexico and lets develop a narrative that guns are bad; better than that, lets make up a completely fabricated story about an Ambassador that gets killed due to a video that no one has seen. Spare us the Nazi comparisons. There are no Stazi Police rounding up the "undesirables" and getting rid of them. This is the Military. It's not a social welfare program. There is a height requirement. I don't see you crying for all the midgets out there that also want to join the Military.
Also, for FYI, we have three branches of government. See Articles I,II, and III, of the Constitution. The President is the person in charge of the Executive Branch. The other two branches are co-equal branches. It is funny when we have a Socialist in the White House they can do no wrong. Lets give them all the power they want. Don't like Immigation Laws, make up your own. Don't like Reporters getting dirt on you sick the FBI on them and their Parents. Don't like guns, ship a couple hundred off to Mexico and lets develop a narrative that guns are bad; better than that, lets make up a completely fabricated story about an Ambassador that gets killed due to a video that no one has seen. Spare us the Nazi comparisons. There are no Stazi Police rounding up the "undesirables" and getting rid of them. This is the Military. It's not a social welfare program. There is a height requirement. I don't see you crying for all the midgets out there that also want to join the Military.
I really don't care either way. But if someone can be medically disqualified for enlistment because of issues controlled by medications, or issues that require future medical procedures, then I don't see how this is any different. A person with diabetes, epilepsy, or thyroid conditions who are otherwise healthy are disqualified because they need medications and/or their conditions may require future medical care that makes them non-deployable. Even bee stings and peanut allergies are disqualifiers. A lot of good, "patriotic" people are turned away from joining the military every day at MEPS across the country because of medical disqualifications. Transgender IS a medical condition since medications and surgeries are a part of being transgender. Therefore, its compatibility with military service should be considered, in that respect.
SFC J Fullerton
SSG Roger Ayscue - Whether or not it is a mental illness is besides the point. Previously, it was a medical disqualifier under psychological disorders. It can still be a medical disqualifier without being classified in that category, due to the medications and future medical care affecting the persons readiness to deploy. If a kid can't join the Army because the eczema on his ass requires prescription cream to be applied daily, then the same should apply here.
PVT Raymond Lopez
I don't want to be mean but when I was finally diagnosed with type two diabetes I had to leave the National Guard and give up my civilian commercial pilots' license!
1LT Kurt Mccarthy
PVT Raymond, right there with you brother as a medically retired Officer, I had to leave because I had a spinal cord tumor. Mind you, last APFT was a 297, tumor and all. I had top block OERs and loved my job and the Soldiers. My Commander checked the box to retain me, my wife and I were told by the PA and TMC that a yearly MRI to monitor the tumor was costing the Army too much money. 8 years thrown away pretty much. Since I was a Medical Officer. The World Health Organization classifies being transgender as gender dysphoria. A 5-13 AR, is within the guidelines, give the WHO classification. The WHO is the daddy of labeling and diagnosing human diseases and illness.
And the bomb thrower, anti-white male, Trump hater spouts more hyperbole. Good job bringing out the normal left wing loons to the table again.
PVT Raymond Lopez
MCPO Roger Collins can your heart take looking at beautiful young ladies at our level of maturity? I seem to have chest pain sometimes and I say it's the big one!
MCPO Roger Collins
It's not the looking that can take you out, if so I would have been dead and gone long ago.
MCPO Roger Collins
Someone originally imposed the ban, Obama/Carter rescinded the ban. Why would this decision be outside the current CINC's authority now? Was there a SCOTUS decision on this that I missed?
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