Trump to reinstate US military ban on transgender people
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals from serving "in any capacity" in the US armed forces.
The decision reversed a policy initially approved by the Defense Department under President Barack Obama, which was still under final review, that would allow transgender individuals to openly serve in the military. Defense Secretary James Mattis announced last month that he was delaying enactment of the plan to begin allowing transgender individuals to join the US military.
A 2016 Rand Corp. study commissioned by the Defense Department concluded that letting transgender people serve openly would have a "minimal impact" on readiness and health care costs, largely because there are so few in the military's 1.3 million-member force.
Frankly I think he should keep going and banned women from front line combat too. Women and men that pretend to be women should not be allowed in combat for the obvious reason of biology. Men are built for combat and women are built for having babies. Many studies have show men are better at preforming tasks under pressure than women and I'd say front line combat is the ultimate pressure one could ever experience. Men are also physically stronger than women and can carry more gear and work on heavy equipment better than women.
About this Rand Corp study that shows transgendered people will have minimal impact on the military its completely unreliable considering there's evidence this companies may have been involved in human trafficking. I think there was even a congressional investigation into this company.
I think Trump did the right thing by banning trans people. If there's known problems with gays and women in the military then letting trans people in is just going to complicate things even more.
source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/26/politics/trump-military-transgender/index.html
This is a terribly unfair policy! I know I am going against the grain a little here, but this policy is neglecting the most underrepresented groups.
This policy will not be fair unless it is applied equally to transgendered and cisgendered troops!
If this policy is implemented fairly, it will really improve the country and we will be on the road to making America great again!
Hey majority rules right? and 51% of the population should be ok with only men fighting wars.
Women should be exempted from military service, yes. Men should be exempt also. LBGTQ should be barred from joining the military, and so should straight people.
The real question here is why maintain this colossal imperial military and participate in endless conflict and perpetual war? To secure our "freedom"? How did it get in Afganistan?
We should just send the politicians and their families into combat, let them fight their own illegal wars.
That would be ideal but you still need the best standing army possible as a deterrent.
Agreed, I am all for defense and a deterrent, too many war mongers in government pushing conflict these days, they will be the first down the bunkers with their families.
While I understand your reasoning, and we may share the same conclusion regarding women in combat, your reasoning is completely wrong. The reason women should not be in combat has little to do with the women and EVERYTHING to do with mans incapability of separating combat decisions and chivalry.
As to transgenders... what the hell, we cant even figure out which bathroom they should use.
Maybe because there's no chivalry in warfare?
This is so bad. They are humans too :-(
Every non-harmful human is human.
and they will continue to be humans just not soldiers.