By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-24 23:49:09 | Updated at 2024-11-25 03:00:28
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Donald Trump to kick transgender troops out of US military
The Times (UK) ^
Posted on 11/24/2024 3:42:10 PM PST by TigerClaws
Times
Donald Trump is planning an executive order that would lead to the removal of all transgender members of the US military, defence sources say.
The order could come on his first day back in the White House, January 20. There are believed to be about 15,000 active service personnel who are transgender. They would be medically discharged, which would determine that they were unfit to serve.
It would also lead to a ban on trans people joining the military and would come at a time when almost all branches of the American armed forces are failing to meet recruitment targets.
Trump, 78, has railed against “woke” practices in the military, saying that some high-ranking officers are often more interested in diversity, equity and inclusion than planning to fight.
The ban is expected to be wider ranging than a similar order made during his first term in office, when Trump prevented transgender people joining the armed forces, but allowed those already serving to keep their jobs. President Biden rescinded the order, but this time even those with decades of service will be removed from their posts, according to several sources.
“These people will be forced out at a time when the military can’t recruit enough people,” a source familiar with Trump’s plans said. “Only the Marine Corps is hitting its numbers for recruitment and some people who will be affected are in very senior positions.”
According to the Pentagon, privacy policies make it difficult to measure the number of active duty trans people, but about 2,200 service members had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021, when Trump’s first ban was lifted. There are about 1.3 million active duty personnel in the military.
There are believed to be thousands of other personnel who identify as gender different from the one they were born.
Military charities that fought the trans ban during Trump’s first term are aware of his plans for a similar move by the incoming administration.
“Should a trans ban be implemented from day one of the Trump administration it would undermine the readiness of the military and create an even greater recruitment and retention crisis, not to mention signalling vulnerability to America’s adversaries,” said Rachel Branaman, executive director of Modern Military Association of America, which campaigns on behalf of LGBTQ+ military personnel and veterans.
“Abruptly discharging 15,000-plus service members, especially given that the military’s recruiting targets fell short by 41,000 recruits last year, adds administrative burdens to war fighting units, harms unit cohesion, and aggravates critical skill gaps,” she said. “There would be a significant financial cost, as well as a loss of experience and leadership that will take possibly 20 years and billions of dollars to replace.”
Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth, 44, as his defence secretary. The Fox News host and former major in the US National Guard has publicly railed against “weak” and “effeminate” leadership in the military and argued in a recent book that “the next commander in chief will need to clean house”.
He has also said that medical care for transgender personnel is an extravagance the Pentagon cannot afford, adding that focusing on the issues that affect only a small number of people in the military is an example of “trans lunacy”.
Trans people already serving in the military say that as well as causing them significant personal hardship, a new ban would be disastrous for the armed forces.
“There are very few members of my career field with this experience, and in the event of a large-scale contingency, it would be difficult to replace the level of experience that I bring to the table,” said a serving US Air Force non-commissioned officer, who preferred not to give their name.
Paulo Batista, a transgender analyst in the US navy, said that a ban would not only put a premature end to his career, it would also cause upheaval across the forces.
“I have four years left on my contract,” he said. “But you take 15,000 of us out — there’s more but that’s the number that is always mentioned — that’s 15,000 leadership positions, every one of us play a vital role.
“There are junior enlisted personnel to high-end officers. You pull one of us out, that means others have to cover. These jobs could take months or even years to fill.”
Batista dismissed another argument made by those opposed to trans people serving in the military: that the Pentagon had to cover spiralling costs of gender dysphoria treatment.
“There is no money being spent, it’s just continued care,” he said. “People enlisting are just slightly hormone deficient, but the bigger picture is how many other people are going to be affected. Kicking out the 15,000 would affect the whole fleet, the whole battalion. It’s everyone.”
Trump’s spokesmen were contacted, but declined to comment.
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1 posted on 11/24/2024 3:42:10 PM PST by TigerClaws
To: TigerClaws
2 posted on 11/24/2024 3:42:44 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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3 posted on 11/24/2024 3:43:17 PM PST by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
To: TigerClaws
I find it very hard to believe there are so many trannies in the services.
4 posted on 11/24/2024 3:43:18 PM PST by OpusatFR
To: TigerClaws
If the military is that hard up for soldiers, we don’t need a military.
5 posted on 11/24/2024 3:43:24 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Answer: My least favorite plantation team sports are the NBA and NFL.)
To: TigerClaws
“These people will be forced out at a time when the military can’t recruit enough people,”
Recruitment will SOAR.
6 posted on 11/24/2024 3:44:04 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
To: TigerClaws
“I have four years left on my contract,” he said. “But you take 15,000 of us out — there’s more but that’s the number that is always mentioned — that’s 15,000 leadership positions, every one of us play a vital role.
So it is a fake number.
7 posted on 11/24/2024 3:44:24 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are not longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
To: TigerClaws
Absolutely! General discharge (”not suitable for military service”). No pensions...no VA benefits.
8 posted on 11/24/2024 3:44:58 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
To: TigerClaws
Good.
They require consistent medical treatment to keep their delusion in place.
If you need consistent medical treatment for anything you do not belong in the military. That is why if you become diabetic they will give you a medical discharge.
9 posted on 11/24/2024 3:45:07 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: TigerClaws
Better to fail to meet quota’s than have those brain damaged people. Hell, recruitment of normal people may go up.
To: Mariner
“Recruitment will SOAR.”
He has mentioned hiring the people who put together the movie “Top Gun Maverick” to make recruiting films. The music plus the visuals are inspiring.
11 posted on 11/24/2024 3:46:22 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (🎶 They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. 🎶)
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12 posted on 11/24/2024 3:46:33 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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13 posted on 11/24/2024 3:46:55 PM PST by jimbug
To: TigerClaws
and please all the Commies while you’re at it
To: TigerClaws
The left loves to use the military to push their agenda, because the service members are forbidden to take political positions publicly.
15 posted on 11/24/2024 3:47:58 PM PST by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
To: TigerClaws
My guess is that he won’t kick out transgenders per se, but will boot anyone requiring maintenance meds or who is otherwise non-deployable. Basically, what the rules always were.
To: TigerClaws
Excellent!
These people can’t be deployed because they have to have constant treatments; both physical and psychological. Thus they put our military readiness at risk. Treating enlistment in the military as a way to have tax-payers fund your sexual fetishes is something that shouldn’t be allowed.
Kick them out. Kick them all out!
17 posted on 11/24/2024 3:48:02 PM PST by CFW
To: TigerClaws
(PRESIDENT Donald Trump to kick transgender troops out of US military)
Works for me
John MacArthur｜There is No Such Thing as Transgender! 🎯💯 (John MacArthur’s GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4235871/posts
John MacArthur said it very well:
It keeps a person from being who
God intended for them to be.
18 posted on 11/24/2024 3:48:14 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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