Posted on 07/27/2017 7:24:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With three tweets, the leader of the largest employer in the country just tried to lay off all trans people in the military. Many service members who were just told “we want you” are suddenly being told “go away.” The sudden reversal by the administration, from allowing trans people to serve openly in the military to outright banning us, is a devastating blow to our livelihoods, our basic humanity, our survival. It is also a devastating blow to the entire credibility of the United States military for years to come.
This is all painfully familiar. Once upon a time, I was denied the ability to even exist as who I am. I had to hide. I had to be in the closet. I had to lie to people I stood next to. I had to virtually eradicate my own existence from myself. I served as a gay person under “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and also as a trans person under the ban on open transgender service. I came out as trans only during my years working as an analyst in the Army.
So, here we are again. After years of advocacy, research, experts’ weighing-in, lives lost, we made progress. And now, again, we are hurtling backward. We are risking our credibility, our legitimacy as a nation and, again, risking the lives of so many people who are listening and watching, and who are already serving....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“Chelsea Manning: President Trump, Trans People in the Military Are Here to Stay”
Chelsea/Bradley or what ever you call yourself today: When the hell did you become Commander in Chief?
Has this SOB been dishonorably discharged yet?!
I would think that he received a dishonorable discharge from the Army when he left Ft. Leavenworth.
Pretending to be something you’re not, is not being true to yourself or anyone else.
Chelsea Manning to Remain in Army, Receive Health Care Benefits
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/05/15/chelsea-manning-to-remain-in-army-receive-health-care-benefits.html
This is the theater of the absurd.
Traitor Bradley “Chelsea” Manning, is going to be the poster boy, or poster girl, or poster whatever, for transsexual people in the military?? Really??? They really are going to trot him/her/it out and be a public face of how wonderful transsexuals in the military are??? A traitor is their example meant to change our opinion on this subject????
From a trans person no longer in the military, and who turned traitor. Great poster child ya got here, NYT. You are instead making an excellent backing argument for Trump's decision.
Now, don’t you bet your life on it. ~~John Wayne
See post #25.
Does the trans community really want a soldier convicted by court-martial in July 2013, of violations of the Espionage Act representing their contribution to the military????
We are risking our credibility, our legitimacy as a nation and, again, risking the lives of so many people who are listening and watching, and who are already serving....
We are risking our legitimacy as a nation??? Really??? If we don’t allow the military to have men without %**R&& or women with an artificial appendage in certain spots, we are an illegitimate nation????
I wonder if this person thinks we are racist sexist homophobic deplorable and all that, if we don’t agree with his liberal views.
Wasn’t Chelsea locked up and pushed out? So, no longer able to stay?
You and Bergdahl should both have gone before a firing squad.
You could be right on that.However,I'm 99% certain that I heard/read somewhere that although he was released from confinement other aspects of his sentence have remained in effect and,as a result,his dishonorable discharge only becomes effective when all aspects of the sentence are fulfilled.
Of course I'm no lawyer and I never ran afoul of the UCMJ so I could very well be wrong.
No one gets special treatment in the military. That’s why everyone wears uniforms, gets the same haircuts, and gets the same training.There is no individuality in the military. You learn that quickly after starting boot camp.
For the most part, you have the rights that are issued to you.
The military is not a social experiment.
This is how it used to be done https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathay_Williams
Manning and Snowden ought to have been received death penalties.
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