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Trump Says Transgender People Will Not Be Allowed in the Military
Topic Started: Jul 26 2017, 11:41 PM (99 Views)
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WASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States will no longer “accept or allow” transgender people in the United States military, saying American forces “must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory” and could not afford to accommodate them.

Mr. Trump made the surprise declaration in a series of posts on Twitter, saying he had come to the decision after talking to generals and military experts, whom he did not name.

The sweeping policy decision was met with surprise at the Pentagon, outrage from advocacy groups and praise from social conservatives. It reverses the gradual transformation of the military under President Barack Obama, whose administration announced last year that transgender people could serve openly in the military. Mr. Obama’s defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter, also opened all combat roles to women and appointed the first openly gay Army secretary.

The shift was announced with such haste that the White House could not answer basic inquiries about how it would be implemented. Chief among those questions was what would happen to the thousands of openly transgender people currently serving on active duty.

“That’s something that the Department of Defense and the White House will have to work together as implementation takes place and is done so lawfully,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said.
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Majortrout 14 minutes ago

I hope someone brings a lawsuit on trump's folly to the courts. Certainly this is a kind of discrimination that is illegal and should be...
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Another stupid Trump move.
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What a bogus excuse for blatant discrimination. Since 2016 when transgender troops have been allowed to serve, military medical costs have...

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The announcement came amid a debate on Capitol Hill over the Obama-era practice of requiring the Pentagon to pay for medical treatment related to gender transition. The dispute has unfolded as Congress considers a nearly $700 billion spending bill to fund the Pentagon. Representative Vicky Hartzler, Republican of Missouri, has proposed an amendment that would bar the Pentagon from spending money on transition surgery or related hormone therapy, and other Republicans have pressed for similar provisions.

Mr. Trump made the decision within a matter of days, according to a person familiar with his decision-making, based on concerns among House Republicans who were preparing to vote Wednesday on the military spending legislation and pressure from the Family Research Council, a leading Christian conservative group that had opposed the bill over spending on transgender medical costs.

It was not clear whether the president informed Defense Secretary Jim Mattis directly of his plans in advance.

Ms. Hartzler said she welcomed the president’s decision.

The policy would affect only a small portion of the approximately 1.3 million active-duty members of the military. About 2,450 are transgender, according to a study last year by the RAND Corporation, though the estimated number of transgender service members has varied.

The study found that allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military would “have minimal impact on readiness and health care costs” for the Pentagon. It estimated that health care costs would rise $2.4 million to $8.4 million a year, representing an infinitesimal 0.04- to 0.13 percent increase in spending for active-duty service members. Citing research into other countries that allow transgender people to serve, the study projected “little or no impact on unit cohesion, operational effectiveness or readiness” in the United States.

Officials at the Pentagon were caught off guard. They had been studying, per the orders of Mr. Mattis, how transgender troops in the military affect other service members, but not with a view toward removing transgender people from the military, several defense officials said.

In June, the administration delayed a decision on whether to allow transgender recruits to join the military. At the time, Mr. Mattis said an extra six months would give military leaders a chance to review its potential impact. Mr. Mattis’s decision to delay accepting transgender recruits for six months had been seen as a pause to “finesse” the issue, one official said, not a prelude to an outright ban.

What’s more, Mr. Mattis loathes wading into politically divisive social policy, the official said, noting that the defense secretary, who is on vacation this week, has taken pains to steer clear of Mr. Trump’s more partisan moves, and views the American military as a unifier of a divided country.

Gay and transgender rights groups and research organizations that have worked to craft policies around the military service of transgender individuals expressed outrage at the move.

“The president is creating a worse version of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’” said Aaron Belkin, the director of the Palm Center, referring to the Clinton-era policy in which gay and lesbian people could not openly serve in the military.

Mr. Belkin said that “discredited” policy had harmed readiness, and Mr. Trump’s new one would have similar effects.

“This is a shocking and ignorant attack on our military and on transgender troops who have been serving honorably and effectively for the past year,” he added.

Joshua Block, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBT & HIV Project, called the move “an outrageous and desperate action,” and asked transgender military service members to get in touch with the organization, saying it was “examining all our options on how to fight this.”

“The thousands of transgender service members serving on the front lines for this country deserve better than a commander in chief who rejects their basic humanity,” Mr. Block said.

Mr. Trump’s abrupt decision will likely end up in court; a nonprofit group that represents gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the military immediately vowed to sue.

“We are committed to transgender service members,” the group, OutServe-SLDN, said in a statement. “We are going to fight for them as hard as they are fighting for the country. And we’re going to start by taking the fight to Donald Trump in the federal court.”

Matthew F. Thorn, executive director of OutServe, said Mr. Trump’s decision was a slap in the face of transgender service members.

“We have transgender individuals who serve in elite SEAL teams, who are working in a time of war to defend our country, and now you’re going to kick them out?” Mr. Thorn said in an interview.

The move drew praise from Tony Perkins, the president of the conservative Family Research Council, which had opposed the Pentagon spending bill over the dispute about paying for gender reassignment surgery. On Wednesday, Mr. Perkins said he would now support the legislation, effectively sending a message to conservative Republican lawmakers that they would not pay a price with their core supporters for voting for it.

“I applaud President Trump for keeping his promise to return to military priorities — and not continue the social experimentation of the Obama era that has crippled our nation’s military,” Mr. Perkins said in a statement. “The military can now focus its efforts on preparing to fight and win wars rather than being used to advance the Obama social agenda.”

Mr. Carter issued a statement objecting to the decision, both for its effect on the military and on those considering joining.

“To choose service members on other grounds than military qualifications is social policy and has no place in our military,” Mr. Carter said. “There are already transgender individuals who are serving capably and honorably. This action would also send the wrong signal to a younger generation thinking about military service.”

And Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, condemned Mr. Trump’s sudden announcement, saying it muddied policy and that anyone who is fit to serve should be allowed to do so.

“The president’s tweet this morning regarding transgender Americans in the military is yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter,” said Mr. McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, noted that Mr. Trump made his decision public on the anniversary of Harry Truman’s order desegregating the United States military. “President Trump is choosing to retreat in the march toward equality,” Mr. Reed said in a statement.

“This was a divisive political move that exposes the president’s lack of faith in the professionalism of our armed forces,” Mr. Reed said, calling on Mr. Trump to review the facts and reverse his decision. “In the land of the free and the home of the brave, every American who is brave enough to serve their country should be free to do so.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/us/politics/trump-transgender-military.html
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It's like Trump's decided he's not even going to bother trying to hide his bigotry anymore. This is absolutely unacceptable, not to mention categorically unlawful. If McDonald's were to fire or refuse employment to someone based on gender identity, they'd be sued.

I would encourage every transgender person currently serving in the military to sue the living fuck out of this unapologetic cocksucker. Trump has got to learn, clearly and concisely, that Americans will NOT tolerate him rolling back civil rights, especially when his only grounds for doing so is stark, overt hatred of anything not rich, white and heterosexual. Besides, as a former service member with unconditional love for my fellow soldiers, as far as I'm concerned a man who dodged drafts and got his rich daddy to help him stay out of Viet Nam should lot be allowed any kind of say when it comes to our military, president or not.

Fuck Trump. Preferably with a transgender dick, 'cuz that would REALLY piss him off.
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I want to know what the LGBT people who were dumb enough to actually VOTE for him, have to say now? (coffee)

But yeah, this is ridiculous. I read this quote on Twitter earlier, "Transgender people show more courage when they leave their fucking houses in the morning than Donald Trump has shown his entire life"

That pretty much sums up my thoughts on this mess.
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Jul 27 2017, 12:19 AM
as far as I'm concerned a man who dodged drafts and got his rich daddy to help him stay out of Viet Nam should lot be allowed any kind of say when it comes to our military, president or not.

Fuck Trump. Preferably with a transgender dick, 'cuz that would REALLY piss him off.
^This! Very much this.
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Jul 27 2017, 12:37 AM
this is ridiculous. I read this quote on Twitter earlier, "Transgender people show more courage when they leave their fucking houses in the morning than Donald Trump has shown his entire life"

That pretty much sums up my thoughts on this mess.
^So true.
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Jul 27 2017, 12:37 AM
I read this quote on Twitter earlier, "Transgender people show more courage when they leave their fucking houses in the morning than Donald Trump has shown his entire life"
I don't know who the person is who said that, but tell them I think they're awesome.
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Jul 27 2017, 12:37 AM
But yeah, this is ridiculous. I read this quote on Twitter earlier, "Transgender people show more courage when they leave their fucking houses in the morning than Donald Trump has shown his entire life"
Brilliant

I feel like this article is trying to imply that no one knew what was happening until they saw the tweets and noticed that Trump had snuck away and locked himself in the bathroom with his cell phone.
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