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Defense Sec. Hagel Open to ‘Review’ of Military Transgender Policy
Mediaite ^ | 11 May 2014 | Evan McMurry

Posted on 05/11/2014 11:57:07 AM PDT by PoloSec

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz on This Week with George Stephanopoulos that he was open to review of the U.S. military’s policy on transgender service members. Currently, transgender service members can be dismissed from the military without question.

“The issue of transgender is a bit more complicated because it has a medical component to it,” Hagel said. “These issues require medical attention. Austere locations where we put our men and women in many cases don’t always provide that kind of opportunity.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: hagel; military; transgender

1 posted on 05/11/2014 11:57:07 AM PDT by PoloSec
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To: PoloSec

Now you’ve let they out you cant put the homosexuals back in the closet...


2 posted on 05/11/2014 11:58:27 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: PoloSec

Hagel is such a jackass. Men dressed up like women and women dressed up like men. Nice military you got there, Chuckie. Morons.


3 posted on 05/11/2014 12:02:54 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Kinda makes me think the mojority of the idiots in DC are either BLATANT or Latant homosexuals!


4 posted on 05/11/2014 12:04:36 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: PoloSec


What once was farce...
5 posted on 05/11/2014 12:07:30 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: MagUSNRET

I agree. Barry sure has the Pentagon wrapped around is little finger. It’s a disgrace. Someday, somebody is going to have to clean up this mess Barry has made.


6 posted on 05/11/2014 12:08:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: PoloSec
I think the absolute first question at Hegel's next appearance is to name the individuals in his immediate 20 person inner circle who are transgendered. Wanna bet the answer is avoided like a leper?
7 posted on 05/11/2014 12:11:17 PM PDT by cashless (Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Someday, somebody is going to have to clean up this mess Barry has made

You really think that's ever going to be possible?

This bastard has made changes that will never go away and from which we'll never recover.

Sometimes there's no going back.

8 posted on 05/11/2014 12:14:12 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: PoloSec

This whole administration is an embarrassment.


9 posted on 05/11/2014 12:17:26 PM PDT by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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To: PoloSec

Have we lost the ability to say, that the military is fundamentally different than civilian life?

And that, even if we put policies into place in the civilian world to deal with sex change operations and all the rest of it, that maybe, just maybe, people with these issues don’t have some constitutional right to be in the military????????

Are we so politically correct that we can’t have any such policies?????


10 posted on 05/11/2014 12:19:05 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: PoloSec

Hagel is a moron and will do what the queer in chief tells him.


11 posted on 05/11/2014 12:38:05 PM PDT by boomop1 (term limits will only save this country.)
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12 posted on 05/11/2014 12:46:18 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: PoloSec

Russia LOL point to democrats.


13 posted on 05/11/2014 1:06:34 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Say Hello to your new commanding officer.

14 posted on 05/11/2014 1:07:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PoloSec

Is there a soldier so vital that such an accomodation is needed?

Pandering that will just weaken unit cohesion.


15 posted on 05/11/2014 1:16:59 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: PoloSec

Way back when, some guys joined the service to get help with education under the GI Bill. Soon they will be joining up to get a free sex change operation.


16 posted on 05/11/2014 1:37:59 PM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Actually, what’s stopping any president from putting don’t ask, don’t tell back into place.


17 posted on 05/11/2014 2:04:44 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I agree. Margaret Thatcher put it best, with her “ratchet effect” theory. However far the left steers the ship of state, the right never completely corrects course when they have power. We don’t even have a party on the right that’s trying.to do so.

Also, the Bible says there will end times, the Tribulation, etc. The ground work for those times has to be laid sometime, with no going back. I don’t see any reason why that time might not be right now. The people are certainly already under “strong delusion”.


18 posted on 05/11/2014 2:40:14 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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