Peter Levine, who recently took over as the Pentagon\u2019s acting personnel chief, said that Carter remains committed to pursuing the change, but added that it will likely take \u201cmonths, but not large numbers of months\u201d more to finalize details.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there was consensus on it, yeah, we would have done it,\u201d Levine said. \u201cBut obviously there are different views from different officials in the services.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cWe\u2019re going to work through that . . . and we\u2019re going to do it expeditiously so that we can do it in this administration. But it\u2019s important that we not only do it, but do it right.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I have no doubts that they’ll cram this down the uniformed services throats in the next eight months – they have to, the social justice warriors demand that it happen – it’s more important than defeating ISiS or the Taliban. <\/p>\n
Some of the problems that face the military are in that picture of Staff Sergeant King above. He’s already serving as a woman – and he needs a GD haircut. Why have uniform standards if they’re not going to enforce those standards across the board?<\/p>\n
While official Pentagon policy still forbids openly transgender personnel, [King’s] commanders have been supportive, [King] said. King even purchased a female dress Army service uniform, anticipating that [King] would be able to wear it soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made a decision that owning that uniform was important to me, and I believe that our leadership is going to do the right thing,\u201d [King] said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
King’s sergeant major needs to be taught how to enforce current military standards – not only for letting a biologically male soldier to walk around with hair like that, but also for letting King talk to the Washington Post about it. It shows, though, that transgender people really don’t care about their service, they only want acceptance of their lifestyle – a lifestyle that many still consider deviant.<\/p>\n
In one case, Army Sgt. Shane Ortega, a transgender man, was required last summer to go to a uniform shop where he was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii with a senior enlisted soldier to obtain a female dress uniform in order to meet Army officials at the Pentagon to discuss transgender policy concerns, according to Ortega and Army officials.<\/p>\n
Ortega said the incident showed \u201ca real lack of leadership and a lack of human compassion\u201d and demonstrated the level of discrimination and ignorance in the military about transgender people is huge.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to go through this experience at a public time \u2026 and try on this uniform in a public space and basically be humiliated because everyone in the space is going to go, \u2018Why is this male soldier trying on this female uniform?\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Tough. The military isn’t a social experiment, and you knew the standards before you signed. If you don’t like the required standards of behavior and conduct, you can always leave. But, then, the goal here is to cram this down decent society’s throat.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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