{"id":78437,"date":"2018-03-24T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T13:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78437"},"modified":"2018-03-24T09:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T13:33:30","slug":"trump-takes-mattis-recommendations-on-transgender-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78437","title":{"rendered":"Trump takes Mattis’ recommendations on transgender ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Stars & Stripes<\/a>, President Trump signed an order yesterday that was aligned with recommendations from Secretary of Defense James Mattis in regards to allowing transgender recruits in the ranks of the military;<\/p>\n

The decision revokes a full ban that Trump issued last summer but disqualifies U.S. troops who have had gender reassignment surgery, as recommended by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.<\/p>\n

“By its very nature, military service requires sacrifice,” Mattis wrote in a memo to the president that was released Friday. “The men and women who serve voluntarily accept limitations on their personal liberties – freedom of speech, political activity, freedom of movement – in order to provide the military lethality and readiness necessary to ensure American citizens enjoy their personal freedoms to the fullest extent.”<\/p>\n

Current transgender service members who have not undergone reassignment surgery should be allowed to stay, as long as they have been medically stable for 36 consecutive months in their biological sex before joining the military and are able to deploy across the world, Mattis recommended.<\/p>\n

Mattis recommended that anyone diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the condition of wanting to transition gender, since the Obama administration ended the Pentagon’s longtime ban on transgender service in 2016 may continue to serve. The decision amounts to a “grandfathering” of those affected by the new policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course the Palm Center<\/a> isn’t happy;<\/p>\n

Applying a single standard to all service members is not only the sole legal option, but is the best way to promote military readiness. Transgender troops have been serving openly in the U.S. military for nearly two years, and have been widely praised by commanders. All available research, including the military\u2019s own extensive study of the issue and the results of a thorough study by the RAND Corporation, indicates that inclusive policy promotes readiness by ensuring equal treatment and drawing on all available talent. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the Stars & Stripes article, Mattis believes that Rand Corp. study to be inaccurate;<\/p>\n

“It referred to limited and heavily caveated data to support its conclusions, glossed over the impacts of health care costs, readiness and unit cohesion, and erroneously relied on the selective experiences of foreign militaries with different operational requirements than our own,” Mattis wrote. “In short, this policy issue has proven more complex than the prior administration or RAND assumed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Basically, the order grandfathers-in transgender troops who are currently in the military while it limits the number of recruits they will accept in the ranks to the more stable people. I guess they don’t want to spend tax payer dollars on a social program that benefits only a few while it sucks away training dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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