Posted on 02/23/2015 11:15:16 AM PST by jazusamo
The White House on Monday backed Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's remark that transgender people should not be precluded from military service because of their sexual identity.
“The president agrees with the sentiment that all Americans who are qualified to serve, should be able to serve,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said during a press briefing.
“For that reason, we here at the White House welcome the comments from the Secretary of Defense,” he added.
On Sunday, Carter said he was “very open minded” about the idea of transgender people serving in the military.
“I don't think anything but their suitability for service should preclude them,” he said during a town hall event in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Even though the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy was repealed years ago, allowing openly gay people to serve, there is still a ban that blocks transgender people from serving in the armed forces.
Last year former DOD chief Chuck Hagel said that the ban should be “continually reviewed.”
Earnest declined to comment on what “additional steps” might be taken on the policy, referring questions to the Pentagon.
One military group on Monday applauded Carter’s position.
The Pentagon chief is “right in that their ability to serve is the only thing that should matter,” Ashley Broadway-Mack, president of the American Military Partner Association, said in a statement.
“Thousands of transgender service members are currently doing the job, and doing it well, but are forced to do so in silence — forced to lie about something as fundamental as who they are in order to continue to serve,” she added.
I can see them forming as a “Shock Battalion”.
I can’t wait for the freak show to end.
The SecDef says “Get thee behind me, Satan,” and voila, appears obama.
Here’s the reality:
Powerful Photos Fearlessly Redefine What It Means to Be LGBTQIA+
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/01/the-identity-project/
Weird. When I was a kid, we elected people to the government. Now we elect buildings.
So Carter has no problem with mentally disturbed individuals serving in the military.
We should invade and occupy Saudi Arabia with Transgendered Troops.
Those whackjobs are hard to look at, very sick.
Understandable. After all, we have a transgender First “Lady”.
Unfortunately I beleive that that a really bad war is what it will take to straighten out this insanity and sadly it’s heading our way.
If they are so ‘brave’ for coming out, then lets send the bravest to the front lines
I totally agree.
"So much for that idea."
Does it get any more ridiculous than this? Not only are these individuals emotionally unbalanced, but they must take hormones to maintain their fake gender-so how is it that they are not considered non-deployable?
“The president agrees with the sentiment that all Americans who are qualified to serve should be able to serve,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said during a press briefing. …Sure, and the easy way to do that is to continuously redefine who is “qualified to serve”.
One must presume that if thinking you are a female trapped in a male body is acceptable, then thinking you are the reincarnation of Napoleon must also be acceptable.
H3ll, I expect a Napoleon Nut might actually be good in Military service.
So with all the “cultural sensitivity” training for gays, “transgenders”, and the like, when is the military going to do combat training?
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