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The liberals have used our public school classroom for social engineering and experimentation -- that was bad enough. We don't need that in our military.
It's still unclear how exactly President Trump will formalize his decision to ban transgender individuals from serving in the military in any capacity. In the future, he should make things clear, direct, and formal before tweeting like a millennial from the hip (but the world should be full of unicorns too, so life is full of disappointments). But if the tweets from Wednesday eventually take the form of an executive order, Trump made the right decision, however impulsive it was and unpopular it may sound.
The U.S. military has one goal: Protect and defend. Or as Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution reads, "to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions."
The goal of the military is not a social experiment; it's not even to see who is the most patriotic. (I'm a patriot but I couldn't physically do what's required of many of our service people.) Its job is not to see if men and women can both do the same amount of push-ups, or if a woman can hold up in a unit of mostly men without interrupting the männerbund, or if a woman who identifies as a man can drag a 170-pound male away from heavy gun fire.
Its job is not to pay for people to have elective surgeries so they feel more like a woman or a man.
While trans activists, including Caitlyn Jenner, are understandably upset about the ban, many members of the military who have seen active combat both support transgenders and agree with Trump's decision, not because they are mean, old-fashioned bigots but because they view the active recognition of transgenders in the military as more of a petri dish of social experiments, wrapped in a progressive agenda.
There may be a place for that -- the military is not that place.
The U.S. military has one goal: Protect and defend. Or as Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution reads, "to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions."
The goal of the military is not a social experiment; it's not even to see who is the most patriotic. (I'm a patriot but I couldn't physically do what's required of many of our service people.) Its job is not to see if men and women can both do the same amount of push-ups, or if a woman can hold up in a unit of mostly men without interrupting the männerbund, or if a woman who identifies as a man can drag a 170-pound male away from heavy gun fire.
Its job is not to pay for people to have elective surgeries so they feel more like a woman or a man.
While trans activists, including Caitlyn Jenner, are understandably upset about the ban, many members of the military who have seen active combat both support transgenders and agree with Trump's decision, not because they are mean, old-fashioned bigots but because they view the active recognition of transgenders in the military as more of a petri dish of social experiments, wrapped in a progressive agenda.
There may be a place for that -- the military is not that place.
The liberals have used our public school classroom for social engineering and experimentation -- that was bad enough. We don't need that in our military.
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