By Milt Harris ——Bio and Archives--July 25, 2023
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As our schools continue to focus on grooming children rather than educating them, our military continues its “Go Woke, Get Weak” approach to our country’s defense.
Promoting transgenderism in civilian life is a travesty. It should be discouraged and treated for the mental illusion that it is. Preying on a mind in a socially generated state of confusion is tantamount to criminal behavior. It has risen to the stature of social contagion, initiated, and amplified by the radical left. Designed not for their stated reason of inclusion, but to create division and the weakening of the collective order.
As evil as it is to pollute anyone’s mind, doing so in a military setting creates a complex level of problems. It has often been said that during a soldier’s time in the military their manner of thought and perception needs to be “broken down and rebuilt.” This is necessary for the soldier’s own safety. Teamwork and an absolute respect for authority is required. Military personnel may encounter many things that they will never come across in civilian life. Situations that may decide life or death, not only for themselves, but for others on their team.
In my humble opinion, allowing transgenders into the ranks of the military borders on treason. Denying one’s birth gender is not cause for celebration, but as I stated earlier, it is cause for great concern. Transgenders in the military create an unnecessary point of confusion. While both male and female military personnel proudly serve, those pretending to be one or the other should not be permitted. It serves no purpose, except to weaken what was once the strongest fighting force in the world.
I can’t help but imagine other countries laughing out loud at the U.S. Navy, trotting out a drag queen under the guise of luring recruits. Think about that. What type of recruits are we trying to entice to join? While other countries are developing disciplined fighting forces, we are using a drag queen as a carrot for recruiting.
As bad as the consternation and confusion is that follows their presence, the DOD at some point decided that outright favoritism towards them would boost morale.
Last week, Jordan Schachtel, who writes The Dossier on Substack reported that a recently released DOD memo reveals shocking special treatment for transgenders. The memo, which is dated February 1, 2023, came out of the Womack Army Medical Center, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The memo is a classic case of the radical woke left rubbing salt in an open wound.
The memo’s sole purpose is to clarify what the military is now calling “culturally sensitive” health care. Which in itself is discriminatory. It sets transgenders aside and gives them special consideration that normal military personnel are not afforded.
Here are a few of the “special privileges” that our tax dollars are paying for.
It’s infuriating that the Biden administration requires that the American Public foot the bill for someone’s disturbing delusion. The fact that they are distractions within the U.S. military make the situation worse. Still the most disturbing aspect of their presence can’t be found on that list.
Under the section that describes members that undergo “Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy,” we find Appendix K, Item 7. That section states that service members “will be non-deployable during the initial phase of stabilization on GAHT,” the initial phase of which “will likely take 6-9 months.”
In addition, transitional surgery could require increased readiness delays that could extend from 9 to 18 months.
There is no way that this can be justified, and while their irrational pipe dream is being temporarily fulfilled, what service are they providing to their country?
They can also receive waivers for physical fitness requirements. Which according to Schachtel can become permanent. “This waiver often becomes a de facto permanent situation, and the transgender identifying service member just has to renew the exemption request every six months.”
The U.S. military has been hollowed out by the radical left. Recruiting is well below acceptable standards and using drag queens as a draw and coddling transgenders, is a large part of the reason.
The United States needs a hard-core fighting force, not a group of narcissists that pout when they think someone used the wrong pronoun.
Pattycake isn’t war.
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Milt spent thirty years as a sales and operations manager for an international manufacturing company. He is also a four-time published author on a variety of subjects. Now, he spends most of his time researching and writing about conservative politics and liberal folly.