{"id":74781,"date":"2017-09-17T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74781"},"modified":"2017-09-17T11:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T15:10:24","slug":"mccain-sponsors-bill-to-block-transgender-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74781","title":{"rendered":"McCain sponsors bill to block transgender ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

John McCain, the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, joined co-sponsors Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) in support of a bill that would prevent President Trump from banning transgender people from serving in the military, according to the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a military hawk and one of the GOP\u2019s most outspoken critics of Trump, said in a statement Friday that he was backing the measure because \u201cwe should welcome all those who are willing and able to serve our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAny member of the military who meets the medical and readiness standards should be allowed to serve \u2014 including those who are transgender,\u201d he continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, that’s the question, isn’t it? Are transgender people fit to serve or does their confusion about nature make their service more dangerous to themselves and their peers? I think that’s why the Pentagon needs more time.<\/p>\n

Under Trump\u2019s plan, Mattis has until Feb. 1 to finish his study. But the Senate\u2019s bill would speed up Mattis\u2019s timeline to the end of the year, prevent the military from discharging currently-serving transgender troops, and express Congress\u2019 conviction that qualified individuals should be allowed to serve regardless of gender identity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know, because the less time that Mattis has to study the problem, the better he’ll be able to study it. <\/p>\n

Idjits. <\/p>\n

They can’t even settle on the number of currently serving members of the military the ban would affect, according to the Huffington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Transgender troops have been openly serving in the military since June 2016. There are between 1,320 and 6,630 transgender people in active military service, a Rand Corp. study estimates. Another group, the Palm Center, put the number as high as 15,500 a few years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congress has so few things on their plate, that they can afford to spend time on whether to allow a few deviants to serve or not. I don’t see McCain trying to resolve the DACA issue or getting the wall built on the Mexican border, fixing Obamacare, or any of the thousands of other things Congress should be worried about accomplishing this year. You know, things that are actually in Congress’ wheelhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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