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Trump announces ban on transgender people in U.S. military
Trump reverses the Obama administration decision to allow transgender troops to serve.
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How many trans people are in the entire military? 100, 200 tops??? Anything to rile up his racist supporters and divert attention away from real issues and his failures is his main goal. You suck.
It's such a pointless thing to do.
Don't take the bait.
What bait? That it is about appeasement to racists? That the numbers are obviously lowballed, if even you look at wikipedia, that states that the most recent estimates are ""with midrange figures of 2,450 in active duty and 1,510 in reserves." Or the other bait that it is about race, religion, or sexual orientation, when, I am quoting a human rights org, ""Being transgender does not imply any specific sexual orientation. Therefore, transgender people may identify as straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc."
Or is it about the bait on the trans issue? That it is immediately framed as a matter of bigots, even when the main type of arguments against transgender inclusion is primarily about financing medical costs.
From STRAIGHT TALK: THE IMPLICATIONS OF REPEALING “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” AND THE RATIONALE FOR PRESERVING ASPECTS OF THE CURRENT POLICY, starts on pg. 207.
As people who are backing this policy, are talking about how it is not about the right to fight for the country, but whether or not is cost effective to train a soldier who comes with X medical bills, particularly if they need to fight in active deployment, where the timeline of medical transitio...
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Yeah, because if there's anything Trump's about it's fiscal prudence. The Know-Nothing bigotry's just for appearance' sake.
it is sad, though, to see you try to rationalize Republican red meat like this on the basis of sheer ignorance that there's, my stars and whiskers, ever been any kind of bullying or mistreatment of trans people.
Predicating it on the basis of Trump's famous thrift, that's rich.
Serving in the military isn't about race, religion or sexual orientation... it's about service. Period.
This is just about him getting attention. Probably taking some air out of the Russia thing.
That air ain't going anywhere.
He likes to think it is,but he's in for a shock.
Trump has now effectively politicized the military.
The whole sad state of affairs to me is that we agonize over the equality we all deserve to feel comfortable enough to go out and kill people.
It’s the working-class flip side of the same coin that makes up hope, desperately, for the corrupt warmongering figureheads of our martial empire to be reasonably diverse as well.
And still we all fight on. We can't be at peace until we are all comfortable enough to march equally I suppose.