Trump Live Updates: US To Sign Orders Banning Transgender Service Members, Gutting DEI

I guess Harley, Corvette, and Mustang sales should go up.

Goddamn that is savage but so true

Lol, refusal to do their job vs people who actually want to be there.

Fire the latter, keep the former - who also happen to be q-anons.

I think they go for Chargers and Jeeps these days.

In fairness, some of those people were told they'd be fine not getting it under some of the standard exceptions to vaccines. A few over medical concerns, etc... then that just ended up getting steamrolled. Not to say a bunch weren't just displaying lawful orders, but some weren't.

That's the point. These actions make perfect sense... if the felon works for Putin.

I mean I strongly support not dying in battle. For hundreds of years infantry has just been cannon fodder anyway

this is a braindead take

The rationale I was told was for battlefield risks. If they are on hormone treatments, there's a risk if they are unable to obtain those while deployed somewhere. Also similar to how the military handles diabetics.

No idea how reasonable or accurate that is. I'm not a doctor.

The only rationale I've seen consistently is that it's expensive to care for trans people.

I was in and diagnosed with gender dysphoria within about a week of Trump's initial tweet saying he was banning trans people. For about 2 months there it was a bit up in the air whether or not I'd get discharged or not. Ultimately was grandfathered in.

It's not an issue of hormones being available in the field, you can be deployed with a years supply no problem. That said the way the policy worked is you can't start HRT while deployed. (Presumably because of the increased burden of regular blood draws earlier on) If you were seeking to transition you needed the approval of your commanding officer, and that could be denied only if you were deployable and hadn't deployed yet.

There was also the option in there for your CO to basically grant you a year to go to college or something while transitioning to generally make integration smoother, so you wouldn't be stuck dealing with second puberty and regular military service at the same time. Though I have no idea if anyone actually got that. I know at least on person who didn't, or didn't take it anyway.

There's a bunch more nuance, rules, and tricky ways people got fucked over by their commands myself included. But at the end of the day, it really caused basically no problems overall while it was an option. And frankly if you can drag a CPAP machine on deployment trans people are less of a logistical nightmare and shouldn't make the top 10 of medical issues that actually might warrant discharge.

Transgenders are different: under no circumstances can we put America's transgenders in danger. They are far too precious to risk in combat. Like for the sake of homosexuals 16 years ago, it has been the solemn oath of every man in uniform to lay down his life in defense of America's precious, precious transgenders.

DEI is a placeholder for the n word to them. Once you realize that, it all fits together

Transgender service members are proficient egg poachers, don't you know?

It's the same shit the Nazis did to Germany - divide the population into a bunch of bite-sized subsets, and tackle them individually while the rest of the country doesn't intervene because they're not a member of the out-group in question. Repeat until they have absolute power.

They don't actually give a shit about trans people; that's just a stepping stone.

So, whether or not the trans community is a part of your life in any way, it's time to resist like your life depends on it... cuz your life might actually depend on it.

I misread that as "a century of civil war," and I was like, I sure as fuck hope not!