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    Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday reiterated his intention to allow transgender people to openly serve in the military, and said he's confident any "practical issues" can be resolved.

    "The question of principle we've sort of settled — what matters is people's ability to contribute to our military," Carter said when asked about the military's transgender policy in a question-and-answer session with cadets at the Air Force Academy. "The only barriers we should ever erect to that principle are ones in which there are practical issues that we can't work through."

    But Carter said he's sure the Defense Department will be able to resolve those issues in this case.


    "We do things in a careful, thoughtful manner, and I'm confident we're going to get to the right place," Carter said.

    Carter did not specifically reference what has yet to be resolved. But before the "don't ask, don't tell" ban on gays in the military was dropped five years ago, some troops raised concerns about bunking and using facilities such as bathrooms showers with gay or lesbian troops.

    The nation is currently in the midst of controversy surrounding laws in states like North Carolina that restrict which public bathrooms transgender people can use. The state and the federal government are now suing each other over the dispute.

    Those may be some of the issues that have to be worked through for transgender troops to serve openly.


    The Pentagon may also have to sort out other, military-specific questions, such as when transgender troops begin adhering to a new dress code and grooming standards, how their fitness standards would change, and whether the military health care system would provide them with hormone replacement therapy or gender reassignment surgery.

    Last July, Carter announced a plan to lift the prohibition on transgender troops. At the time, he said the current regulations "are outdated and are causing uncertainty that distracts commanders from our core missions.

    Defense regulations now consider transgender people medically unfit for service. They can be separated honorably if diagnosed with "psychosexual conditions, including but not limited to transsexualism, exhibitionism, transvestism, voyeurism, and other paraphilias," according to Defense Department Instruction 6130.03.


    Carter last summer also announced a new policy requiring the Pentagon's top personnel official to sign off on any administrative discharges for troops diagnosed with gender dysphoria or who identify as transgender. That was expected to limit or halt such discharges.

    Up to 15,000 of the roughly 2.2 million active-duty and reserve troops now serving may be transgender people, according to estimates from advocates.

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    Putin, the Ayatollahs, ISIS, the nut in North Korea, and our other adversaries are laughing their a$$es off today! Our military has become a joke - thanks in large part to this progressive idiot. Would love to see DT get elected president, just so he can fire this dumba$$ (and reverse everyone of his policies).


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    So we're doing all of this bs for a very small percentage of the imagined number transgender queers in the military. This 15,000 represents .68% of the population.

    0.681818181818182%



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    Carter, as well as his butt-buddy Mabus both need to shrivel up and go away... their combined "additions" to our military services has been more destructive than the actions of all of our OTHER enemies combined....


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    In my days in the Corps, this would have never been an issue. Queers would elect to leave the Corps after only ONE discussion with other Marines once it was found out that the guy was a queer. In NAM, however, they were given choice assignments like walking point.


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    Are you saying that all the guys that walked point were queer? I didn't know that.


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    Me either, Russ. But then I never walked point.......I was not expendable.


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    Quote Originally Posted by mongoose View Post
    me either, russ. But then i never walked point.......i was not expendable.
    bingo!


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    Can't wait for the mandatory sensitivity training to start ...


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    So will it be skivvies or panties ?


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