Matt. 24:15
Posted on 08/06/2015 5:23:30 AM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 5, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The Obama administration, is prepared to lay out the plan that will allow "transgender" soldiers to serve openly the military.
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter wrote in a public memo last month that those in charge of implementing the new policy "will start with the assumption that transgender persons can serve openly without adverse impact on military effectiveness and readiness unless and except where objective, practical impediments are identified[.]"
The dismantling of the transgender ban officially began Monday, according to USA Today, when higher-ups in the Pentagon met to discuss how best to integrate openly transgender troops into the U.S. armed forces.
Many practical aspects of the change remain undefined, including what uniforms transgender soldiers will be expected to wear and to what sort of health care they will be entitled. Carter has called for a "working group" to sort out these issues by early next year.
The Pentagon announced last month that it would terminate the military's ban on transgender people serving "openly" – i.e., dressing and behaving as members of the opposite sex.
Carter said at the time that "the Defense Department's current regulations regarding transgender service members are outdated," comparing the military's emerging policy on transgender members to its adaptation to the changing strategies of terrorists on the battlefield.
“We must ensure that everyone who's able and willing to serve has the full and equal opportunity to do so," he said.
Under the new military paradigm, hormone replacement therapy for transgender soldiers is expected to be funded by the U.S. taxpayer. According to Joycelyn Elders, a former U.S. surgeon general, it would be "inconsistent" for the Department of Veterans Affairs to deny "medically-necessary cross-sex hormone treatment" to transgender troops.
The average cost of the transgender reassignment procedure varies from $15,000 to $60,000.
A UCLA study estimates that 15,500 transgender troops "have served in the U.S. armed forces, or are currently on active duty," with an estimated 134,000 transgender veterans and Guard and Reserve retirees.
The Pentagon's dismantling of the ban on openly transgender soldiers has widely been compared to the 2011 repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT), a Bill Clinton-era policy that prohibited homosexual service members from openly professing their sexual preference At the time, Richard Black, the former chief of the U.S. Army's criminal law division, strongly opposed repealing the policy, foretelling increased sexual assaults in the military.
Black's warning appears to have been validated: since DADT repeal, male-on-male sexual assault in the military has reached epidemic proportions, with a male enlistee 10 times more likely to be sexually abused than he would be as a member of the civilian population.
This is because homosexuality is a MENTAL ILLNESS and it should be treated as such.
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Obama will do everything possible to destroy America.
Ash Carter is another lap dog who will do anything the master wants just to keep his luxury job.
YUCK
Shhhhhh! That's a dirty little secret.
Can any of this crap be rolled back under a new administration? We are not going to have a military if this kind of thing continues.
Sick, sick, sick.
Excellent post Sarge.
No other explanation makes sense. Remember Bush 43 saying "Help is on it's way" to the military. I hope it isn't too late this time.
The only thing he might do is strain his back hauling all of that money to the bank. Most likely the people at E! who game him the 25 million should off themselves but these days nobody is held accountable for any decision they make.
Dear Lord please take this man out please Lord we have suffered enough! Please pray for our Military.
Body dysmorphic disorder is just that. A disorder. Means treat, not pretend with.
Balaam knew if he could drag Israel far enough from God, God would unleash his wrath on Israel.
And most of America doesn’t understand what is happening.
(not saying America is a new Israel, but the same principles apply)
I have a transgendered brother born my sister. I don’t see how they can serve because of how disruptive it all is two the military. it sickens me because this is mental illness akin to those that want to chop off there hand because they feel it is not there hand. the big problem is that most people that are transgendered don’t want anyone to even know about it and the reason for the valence against them is usually some one is surprised by it when the person who is transgendered reveals it after dating
the person once or twice. the biggest problem would be in the enlisted ranks.. I personally think that Obama is trying to get as much of his liberal ideology done as possible and that things are going to get progressively worse the closer he is to leaving office. I mentioned my brother and the reason why I mentioned him is that in my mind because of this mental illness really cant be described as one sesx or the other sex. and this makes dealing with him in the military almost impossible.
Insanity. He obviously doesn’t want the army to be able to fight a war.
You don’t have a “transgendered brother”.
You have a sister who likes to pretend she’s a guy.
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