Trump announces ban on transgender individuals serving in military By Barnini ChakrabortyPublished July 26, 2017 Fox News President Trump tweeted Wednesday that the U.S. government will not allow transgender people “to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military.” In a series of tweets, he wrote: "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 the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you." The president’s tweets came only a few weeks after Defense Secretary James Mattis said he would give military chiefs another six months to conduct a review to determine if allowing transgender individuals to enlist in the armed services will affect the “readiness or lethality” of the force. The deadline for that review was Dec. 1, 2017. Transgender service members have been able to serve openly in the military since last year, when former Defense Secretary Ash Carter ended the ban. It was not immediately known how Trump’s ban would affect transgender troops already openly serving in the military.
Winning. Why would it take the Pentagon six months of meetings to overturn an idiotic policy? The only possible excuse would be to see who supports it, so we could also get rid of them. Obama infected the military with a whole class of PC officers who are more interested in social engineering than war fighting. They must be rooted out. This was low hanging fruit. Next up is to root out discrimination against Christians and address the gay agenda Obama imposed.
Not only someone in this day and age typed this, there were people who liked this as well. What exactly is the difference between ISIS supporting Muslims and current Republicans again? Same right-wing ancient way of thinking.
Obama's gay agenda was equal rights for Gay Americans.I'm not surprised at all that the party of homophobic/racist /misogynistic discriminators would oppose that.
Good move. This isn't discrimination against homosexuals. Transgender are not homosexuals. Anyone so confused about their actual gender when it is a fact of biology is far too unstable to be trusted in life and death decisions. You are a man, or a woman, period. You may not like being a man, but you are in fact a man. You may not like being a woman, but you are in fact a woman. Wearing a dress doesn't make you a woman. Getting a butch haircut and wearing a flannel shirt doesn't make you a man. Simply because modern medicine can now perform genital mutilation in a safe manner doesn't change anything other than appearance which only accommodates a deep seated psychosis. Other than to grow their ranks I cannot imagine why gays include themselves with the transgender. Completely different circumstances. Transgenders are obviously suffering from a severe mental illness. They should be treated, not encouraged. Would you encourage a schizophrenic to continue to carry on conversations with their imaginary friends? Would you want to depend on a schizophrenic in a life and death situation? If you take schizophrenic off the street, clean him up, put a nice suit on him, have you treated the underlying illness? Is he now of sound mind? Of course not.