Thursday, March 13, 2014

What's A Standing Army For?

"We determined not only that there is no compelling medical reason for the ban, but also that the ban itself is an expensive, damaging and unfair barrier to health care access for the approximately 15,450 transgender personnel who serve currently in the active, Guard and reserve components,” said the commission led by Dr. Joycelyn Elders, who served as surgeon general during Bill Clinton’s first term as president, and Rear Adm. Alan Steinman, a former chief health and safety director for the Coast Guard.
If I'm hearing Elders correctly, the military is longer about missions or mission preparedness, but rather about last resort access to healthcare? At least she's forthright and upfront about it.

6 comments:

I'm Full of Soup said...

What a crock- they are claiming 1-2% of active and vets are transgender? What a crock - did I say that already.

And btw, Elders was the SG who wanted to give instructions to yutes on how to masturbate right? What a maroon.

edutcher said...

Another move to destroy the military.

There was a piece a few months ago about how the people who "just wanted to stop living a lie" were arranging same sex orgies through Craig's List.

In A-stan.

Isn't that a combat zone?

Leland said...

Yeah, I'm having a very difficult time believing there are 15,000+ transgendered people in the US military. I would not be surprised if the total number across the entire US population is around 15,000.

I've noticed a tendency of the BSGLDILIGAF societies to encourage friends and families to join in membership, and then claim those friends and families among the number of that are gay, bi, transgendered, or whatever, as if these are now just interchangeable genders and not something you were born to be.

Michael Haz said...

More and more, the US military seems to be morphing into a gay pride parade with guns and a pension plan.

Synova said...

When I was in the service they wouldn't let you in until AFTER you had all your oral surgery completed.

You have to get your tattoos removed and your gauges sewn up before you enlist.

There's no reason at all not require major surgeries before enlistment, even if the service then takes trans recruits. (It wouldn't be too bad being a trans female, because you'd pass the physical fitness requirements pretty good... a transmale would probably not manage male standards even after acquiring male parts.)

Methadras said...

This is the other dirty side of a civilian controlled military. They could to push their social justice garbage down the throat of military readiness.