(CNN) The US Navy has granted a waiver allowing a transgender service member to serve “in their preferred gender” for the first time since the military enacted a transgender ban.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/14/politics/navy-first-waiver-transgender/index.html
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
This should put the fear of God into those Chinese atheists. So there!
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Huh? What? Newspeak alert; If they have to reverse their transition, in order to serve, they wonāt be ātransā anything anymore, right? OMVVG, ST, I sure donāt envy the new incoming Secy, of the Navy (SecNav).
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Oops, my bifocals caught me; I thought it read āpreviousā. I still say OMVVG!
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These insane people are, like , about 6 tenths of a percent of the population. How the foxtrot did they get to control the rest of us?
So, Trumpās ban is still in effect, but Congress has āblocked funds to implement itā? I donāt understand. Why does the Pentagon need money to NOT do something? And who is the C in C anyway?
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Once again proving the so-called progressive Left only ratchets in one direction.
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Why does the Pentagon need money to NOT do something?
Good question for which I have no answer but I suspect this is truly a first-world phenomenon whose root lies in too many lawyers chasing too few dollars.
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Do you mean the Pentagon would have to accumulate a legal defense fund? Yāknow, lawyers can be your friends…š¬
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Do you mean the Pentagon would have to accumulate a legal defense fund?
It is the only thing I could think of. I am just as baffled as you are about how not doing something costs money. On the other hand, I do know that not flying commercial aircraft costs the airlines big dollars but that seems very different than not allowing boys to wear girls’ uniforms in our formerly unbeatable military.
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This made me think of something thatās been at the back of my mind: I read, ages ago, that guards at the Nazi concentration camps were told not to interfere if a prisoner was attempting suicide. In prose worthy of Jefferson the manual expounded on how committing suicide, choosing death, was the only autonomy a prisoner had, and it MUST be scrupulously respected. It seems to me thatās whatās happening in our society. As we lose our Big freedoms, the Left concentrates on fierce autonomy Within the tiniest possible sphere: individual identity. āDonāt TOUCH ME! AND IF I SAY IM A WOMAN,YOU CALL ME āSHEā EVEN IF I DO HAVE A BEARD!!ā
I reckon real tyrants donāt care about that kind of āindependenceā. Itās no threat to them. Itās like, thatās fine, er, āMaāamā as long as you stay home, wear a mask, donāt vote for Trump..in fact that kinda minute identity politics is To be encouraged. The more narcissistic and self-absorbed the populace is, the less we care about the policies and practices of government. As with the Nazis, the right to destroy and mutilate oneās own body becomes THE ultimate āfreedomā. So depressing.
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The last paragraph of the CNN article: An earlier analysis from the Rand Corporation, commissioned by the Obama Defense Department, concluded that allowing transgender people to serve in the military would have a “minimal impact” on readiness and health care costs, largely because there are so few.
This is camel’s nose under the tent from BHO. We had one trans-something at USAFRICOM (Stuttgart, Germany) and it was a big deal. It was ‘only’ one man at a senior level (4 star command) and he caused a great deal of impact when he began cross-dressing at work. So much so that in typical buck-passing fashion, he who began to apply make-up and dress like a she was transferred quite suddenly to another command in the DC area.
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Off-topic but wouldn’t self-identifying as a woman and insisting on female pronouns make a human person originally assigned the male sex (gender if you are a polyglot) at birth less susceptible to nCOVID-19? If not, what gives Flu Manchu the right to ignore PC diktats of the more enlightened among us?
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I did hear, at one point, that more real men were dying than real women. But that seems to have fallen off the radar lately. Maybe thatās why Paās secāy of Health cross-dresses?
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āThe mortality in males seems to be twice in every age group of females,ā Dr. Deborah Birx said March 20 during a briefing of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force.
This info seems to go against the notion that sex is a social construct. Nevertheless, I suggest all XYs self-identify as XXs during the current pandemic.
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Ruh-roh. There goes the neighborhood…
I suppose the Navy no longer considers the camaraderie of its forces as key to the success of its missions. Colin Powell once said that race and sexuality were two different things: One is a skin color and the other is a profound aspect of one’s identity.
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It seems the DOD would rather be a laboratory for social engineering than focus on national defense. WInning the Peace is more difficult than playing pretend so no wonder the admirals are on board with this insanity.
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Definitely; the Joint Chiefs were criticized for fighting Clinton’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy but apparently succumbed to social/political pressure. One of the biggest reasons our military has been so successful is that even though it is technically a “govt program,” it has always operated under its own code and not that of the swamp.
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General Dunford (USMC) held out longer than most while he was Commandant of the Marine Corps – then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – but thereās only so much one man or woman, (like Ellen OāDonnell, sociologist and longtime researcher on āgender integrationā and related questions – consultant to Gen. Dunford and DOD) can do alone,
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Yes, that is why the Left isolates then ghosts those on our team who get in their way. See, Flynn General.
Frankly our side does it also but only to each other, never to Progs. See, fratracide.
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Solid copy, ST!
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The Navy is performance-challenged, to say the least, right now – irrespective of gender identity snafus and Wuhan flu – a couple-year-long string of incidents and accidents – that made headlines here. Iām doubtful that it will recover soon on its own. Parenthetically: Maybe closer contact with its āsister serviceā is needed to help it find its bearings again?
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Hussein Omega, asSimon pointed out, used the military as a giant lab for social experimentation.
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I sincerely doubt this country has ever elected a president so utterly naive about both his own country and the world.
I will never vote for a career pol again especially if he attended an Ivy. (No offense Hyp; I know you know what I mean here.) After the Don, it will be Senator Rick Scott from Florida both of whom attended business schools and made billions.
Those are my two criteria. Period.
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Naive is not the first word that comes to mind re: BHO for me…..How about ānefariousā?
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I like to think ahead and because ST has so graciously allowed this site to go off-topic, I want to start planting the seed for Rick Scott after the Don hopefully wins in 2020.
This is what I want to see in a pol:
Senator Scott was a casual golf buddy of my late father and lives in Naples. When he was elected guv, my father was sorry to lose his fellow Midwestern friend as were the pols in Tallahassee because he was never there!
Guess where he was? He was constantly traveling to and poaching the rust belt in Pittsburgh, car country in Michigan, and West Virginia where people and corporations were struggling and enticing them to Florida with no personal income tax and 15% corporate tax rates. He succeeded in bringing 50,000 new jobs to my state in 8 years. My kind of guy!
When the inevitable criticism came from the liberal media for his “absenteeism,” he responded, “Don’t forget we have a very competent state legislature who can take care of the local issues. My mission is jobs, jobs and jobs for this state so we can remain tax free.”
This is an example of who we should be voting for- people with real world experience who have decided to spread their wisdom in the political world and help us all.
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“…Florida with no personal income tax and 15% corporate tax rates.”
That is 15% State tax on top of Federal corporate taxes – oui?
As Liz keeps pointing out, lowering the corporate tax to no higher than 18% is what we need to lead the world out of this pandemic. There will never be a better opportunity for a Republican President to take this on. Make it part of his coattails in November.
My line of thinking here will soon be poached and repeated elsewhere.
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