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Transgender People Can Enlist in Military Jan. 1, Pentagon Says
« on: December 11, 2017, 10:15:40 pm »
Washington (AP) -- The Pentagon is allowing transgender people to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, despite President Donald Trump's opposition.

The new policy reflects growing legal pressure on the issue, and the difficult hurdles the federal government would have to cross to enforce Trump's demand to ban transgender individuals from the military. Two federal courts already have ruled against the ban. Potential transgender recruits will have to overcome a lengthy and strict set of physical, medical and mental conditions that make it possible, though difficult, for them to join the armed services.

Maj. David Eastburn, a Pentagon spokesman, says the enlistment of transgender recruits will start Jan. 1 and go on amid the legal battles. The Defense Department also is studying the issue.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/transgender-people-enlist-military-jan-181029241.html?soc_trk=gcm&soc_src=d2d2ab95-084f-340a-8e4e-6f5012fc5c36&.tsrc=notification-thrones
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Re: Transgender People Can Enlist in Military Jan. 1, Pentagon Says
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2017, 10:20:25 pm »


Really?!?!?
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Re: Transgender People Can Enlist in Military Jan. 1, Pentagon Says
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2017, 10:26:28 pm »



"So much for that Section 8."
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Re: Transgender People Can Enlist in Military Jan. 1, Pentagon Says
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2017, 10:29:05 pm »
Yep.
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Re: Transgender People Can Enlist in Military Jan. 1, Pentagon Says
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2017, 10:53:28 pm »
Quote from: edpc on December 11, 2017, 10:15:40 pm
Transgender People Can Enlist in Military Jan. 1, Pentagon Says


Everyone involved in this needs to be cashiered.   


The Military needs to keep mentally ill people away from dangerous weapons. 


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Re: Transgender People Can Enlist in Military Jan. 1, Pentagon Says
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2017, 10:58:44 pm »
   So Glad we have moved beyond all that Social Engineering obummer imposed on the Military.   #MAGA

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Re: Transgender People Can Enlist in Military Jan. 1, Pentagon Says
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2017, 11:04:18 pm »
Quote from: corbe on December 11, 2017, 10:58:44 pm
   So Glad we have moved beyond all that Social Engineering obummer imposed on the Military.   #MAGA



I hope they are requiring a pledge that the 'enlistee' in question will not demand or be entitled to any sex related operations.
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Re: Transgender People Can Enlist in Military Jan. 1, Pentagon Says
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2017, 11:16:02 pm »
I don't grasp other people's lack of concern over this.   From my perspective,  this makes as much sense as a guy showing up in a chicken suit and claiming to be a chicken.   




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Re: Transgender People Can Enlist in Military Jan. 1, Pentagon Says
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2017, 11:40:28 pm »
Quote from: DiogenesLamp on December 11, 2017, 11:16:02 pm
I don't grasp other people's lack of concern over this.   From my perspective,  this makes as much sense as a guy showing up in a chicken suit and claiming to be a chicken.   




Don't prospective enlistees have to take a psych exam?  They used to.  There is no reason, beyond activism or the hope of medical care for sex change surgery, that transgender people would want to be soldiers.

They are confused misfits.  I can feel sorry for them but I don't want them in the military.

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