Battle begins over implementing Trump's transgender ban

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY ELLEN MITCHELL - 08/27/17 07:00 AM EDT

The White House's Friday guidance to stop accepting transgender people into the military and to potentially oust those already serving will be difficult to implement fully, according to legal experts.

There's never been a case for removing a class of people from the military who have already been serving based on race, gender or sexual orientation, said Jennifer Levi, a lead attorney for five transgender troops suing President Trump and the Pentagon over the ban.

“From a legal standpoint, the military can’t create special rules that limit people’s service or that treats them in ways that limit their opportunities just because of who they are,” said Levi, a transgender rights project director with GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders.

Trump’s newly signed presidential memo instructs the Pentagon to stop accepting transgender people who want to enlist in the military, stop payments for gender reassignment medical treatment and further explore how to handle transgender people currently serving in the armed forces. The rules would be implemented fully by March 23, 2018.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/348096-battle-begins-over-implementing-trumps-transgender-ban

[global1]

1. Has Trump Stated Why He Wants This Transgender Ban?.....

What is his reasoning? I haven't heard any justification coming from Trump or the WH for this ban. My suspicions are that he is doing this to appeal to his base and that is the only reason. The MSM needs to ask this question of either Trump or his press secretary Sanders.

I think the American People are entitled to some explanation for this. And not just because it's good because it appeals to his base.

[DonViejo]

2. Inside Trump's snap decision to ban transgender troops

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/26/trump-transgender-military-ban-behind-the-scenes-240990

[sarge43]

4. According to Shat Stain, they cost too much money due to medical treatments which they don't

Further, the oldest dodge on the books, detrimental to 'unit cohesion'.

[Seedersandleechers]

6. The military spends more money

on viagra then they do on transgender military personal.

[sarge43]

7. Yup. That one caused me to snicker a bit.

As memory serves, but doesn't reenlist, five times as much.

[sarge43]

3. "There's never been a case for removing a class of people from the military (cont)

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who have already been serving based on race, gender or sexual orientation..."

That would be news to all the gays and lesbians discharged for "homosexual tendencies". Yeah, that's the way the discharge regulation used to read.

Further, that would be news to all the women discharged for pregnancy. Yeah, I'm aware only women get pregnant; however, no one was discharged for a temporary medical deferment nor were any men discharged when they became fathers nor were any men discharged if they became a single parent - death, divorce, desertion.

Going back a ways, following the end of WWI the women who enlisted in the Navy and Marine Corps were summarily discharged for no other reason than their gender.

When and if all transgenders are summarily released or discharged, then Ms Levi can say "a class". Until then, thousands of individuals within a class have been singled out solely because they were in that "class".

[BarbD]

5. Divide and distract.

He doesn't give a rat's ass about anything except Russia. My god, just what has he done?

[uppityperson]

8. FDT