{"id":73616,"date":"2017-07-26T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73616"},"modified":"2017-07-26T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:00:33","slug":"trump-bans-transgender-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73616","title":{"rendered":"Trump bans transgender troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Fox News<\/a>, the President Tweeted that he won’t allow the military to be distracted by the costs associated with allowing transgendered people to serve in the military;<\/p>\n

“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow…Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming..victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.”<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s tweets came only a few weeks after Defense Secretary James Mattis said he would give military chiefs another six months to conduct a review to determine if allowing transgender individuals to enlist in the armed services will affect the \u201creadiness or lethality\u201d of the force. The deadline for that review was Dec. 1, 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m expecting my inbox to fill up with emails from the Palm Center and human rights groups who will point out that transgendered troops have been serving for the past year without disruptions, however, they won’t take into account the folks who will join just to get free alterations and the cost to readiness that would be caused by those folks riding medical profiles, unable to deploy, not to mention the costs of life-long medical attention they’d require for elective treatment. Ignoring the social costs to order and discipline in the ranks.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of the Secretary of Defense’s focus on warfighting, this is probably the correct decision at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Fox News, the President Tweeted that he won’t allow the military to be distracted … Trump bans transgender troops<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}