The Pentagon Updates Policy Banning Transgender Personnel from Serving in the Military
If I am reading this right, after April 12th any transgender person that wants to serve in the US military will need to serve in their biological gender and stop taking hormones:
The Defense Department has approved a new policy that will largely bar transgender troops and military recruits from transitioning to another sex, and require most individuals to serve in their birth gender.
The memo outlining the new policy was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, and it comes after a lengthy and complicated legal battle. It falls short of the all-out transgender ban that was initially ordered by President Donald Trump. But it will likely force the military to eventually discharge transgender individuals who need hormone treatments or surgery and can’t or won’t serve in their birth gender.
The order says the military services must implement the new policy in 30 days, giving some individuals a short window of time to qualify for gender transition if needed. And it allows service secretaries to waive the policy on a case-by-case basis.Under the new rules, currently serving transgender troops and anyone who has signed an enlistment contract by April 12 may continue with plans for hormone treatments and gender transition if they have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
But after April 12, no one with gender dysphoria who is taking hormones or has transitioned to another gender will be allowed to enlist. And any currently serving troops diagnosed with gender dysphoria after April 12 will have to serve in their birth gender and will be barred from taking hormones or getting transition surgery.
Associated Press
You can read more at the link, but of course the usual people are complaining this is discriminatory. Of course this is discriminatory because the Army discriminates all the time such as not allowing handicapped or obese people to join. This is less a discrimination issue, but more of one where DOD leadership has decided that the medical issues involved with transgender personnel is not worth the trouble of accommodating.
As it should be
“any currently serving troops diagnosed with gender dysphoria after April 12 will have to serve in their birth gender and will be barred from taking hormones or getting transition surgery.”
That seems to be saying those diagnosed after 12 April will be denied treatment. But any diagnosed, authorized and/or transitioned before 12 April may be grandfathered in.
I happen to know a transgender person serving in the Military. They seem to have done the change and are doing their job up to standard. I have no problem with them. My problem is with those who want to do the change while making them un-deployable and making Uncle Sam pay for it. Thank goodness no Federal Judge has made a ruling reversing this, common sense applies.
All the other stuff on the side my main issue with this is:
Military pay is subsidized in theory through enhanced support and services. Don’t worry about a house, food, or medical! We got you covered by the best stuff America can provide.
Except they don’t.
(Once again other hooey aside) People use the excuse that because it’s the military we should accept their failure to uphold their end of the commitment — just because.
An individual entering as an officer with stipulations that they’ll get X amount of time to attend college full time to plus up on whatever their career branch requires and paid for by the service does so with the stipulation that they’ll have to extend basic service time so they military gets to take advantage of the addition schooling they paid for. If the individual fails to uphold the extra time commitment they’ll be on the hook to reimburse the military for the costs.
There’s no reason they methodology cannot be applied to individuals wishing to take advantage of above-basic medical services that will take them offline for periods of time outside the norm of “basic sick leave”.
My suspicion is that the two major drivers of the failure to adopt this system is the underlying “old mentality” that persists in the military culture and that government (military) in general is basically shit at doing anything complex. Just ask any GWOT vet walking around with a f–king metal hook for a hand. A hook… in the 21st century… they can’t even provide what 99% of store mannequins are provided, a f–king hook.
Smokes, you’re right. But the wannabee trannies have better lawyers amd more support in the commie press than guys who actually did their jobs and sacrificed for the country.
I’ll just leave this here:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/10/i-was-americas-first-non-binary-person-it-was-all-a-sham/?fbclid=IwAR3z0D7mBlLG8TeONvmhcg_2d6yeGMT_j7DLzhw538sPnpigjpNX2JPY70I