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I don't know your friends of course, and I would completely respect them as human beings. But to say that they don't "choose" to behave in this manner is absurd.

I think you are right. Let's follow Mike Pence's lead and provide electro-shock therapy to see if we can get their minds right.

No one is saying they can't be transgendered. We are saying the taxpayers should not pay for the surgeries.

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It says nothing about having to pay for transgender surgery. How about we exclude that from military benefits and welcome transgender people with open arms?

Sure. While we are at it, let's exclude neo-natal care, cancer treatment, coronary care and PTSD.

Are you seriously saying that cancer and bottom surgery are equivalent?

This is the real problem - liberals don't understand the concept of what's choice and what's not.

Anonymous wrote:Are the American people really so stupid that they cannot see this as the clear, typical-trump diversion tactic?


To even debate or discuss this plays into the Orange Con Man's hand.

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Anonymous wrote:
I don't know your friends of course, and I would completely respect them as human beings. But to say that they don't "choose" to behave in this manner is absurd.

I think you are right. Let's follow Mike Pence's lead and provide electro-shock therapy to see if we can get their minds right.

No one is saying they can't be transgendered. We are saying the taxpayers should not pay for the surgeries.

Anonymous wrote:Pander to the base. Deflect! Can we get some tweets on the fact that Wisconsin went for Trump? It's been a few hours since the Boy Scout speech and I forgot how many electoral votes he won.

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Anonymous wrote:Approximately 250 Transgenders are in the Military of hundreds of thousands in a country of 340 million. Why is this even a story... meh!

I suspect a lot of people were enlisting in the hopes of having DOD pay for the transition. There have always been people who enlisted for medical care. Years ago, I knew someone who enlisted because his wife had cancer. Very sad. She was young. He did stay in after she passed and was an asset to the service. I also have known of others who did this. The data would be difficult to find, but I personally know of several who stayed in because of medical issues in their families.

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Anonymous wrote:
I don't know your friends of course, and I would completely respect them as human beings. But to say that they don't "choose" to behave in this manner is absurd.

I think you are right. Let's follow Mike Pence's lead and provide electro-shock therapy to see if we can get their minds right.

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Anonymous wrote:

It says nothing about having to pay for transgender surgery. How about we exclude that from military benefits and welcome transgender people with open arms?

Sure. While we are at it, let's exclude neo-natal care, cancer treatment, coronary care and PTSD.

Anonymous wrote:
I don't know your friends of course, and I would completely respect them as human beings. But to say that they don't "choose" to behave in this manner is absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:Approximately 250 Transgenders are in the Military of hundreds of thousands in a country of 340 million. Why is this even a story... meh!

I suspect a lot of people were enlisting in the hopes of having DOD pay for the transition. There have always been people who enlisted for medical care. Years ago, I knew someone who enlisted because his wife had cancer. Very sad. She was young. He did stay in after she passed and was an asset to the service. I also have known of others who did this. The data would be difficult to find, but I personally know of several who stayed in because of medical issues in their families.

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It says nothing about having to pay for transgender surgery. How about we exclude that from military benefits and welcome transgender people with open arms?

Anonymous wrote:Are there any openly transgender people in the military now? Is this a pressing issue? I also don't understand the impetus for this decision. As stated, there is much bigger fish to fry in the military and outside of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Whoa boy. Something really juicy is about to come out about Trump. My guess is underage girls.

It could be anything.

I have two trans friends. They don't deserve this sh*t. They don't choose their gender association any more than you or I do. The cruelty of this administration knows no bounds. I feel like we've moved back to the 1930s. Sick Trump, sick, sick, sick.

And yes, it's a diversion, but what else is new?

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tip: the real leaders have already decided LBGT are fine)

Please supply some quotes. Do you have any idea how much time is already spent on social training in the military? Any idea? When you spend time in social training, you are taking it away from other duties. This is a problem when funds are already very tight.

Of course Chelsea Manning's demands for surgery are not helpful

This entire statement from Ash Carter is worth reading, but within it is the following quote from US Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley:

Army Chief-of-Staff General Milley recently reminded us of this when he said, and I quote him, "The United States Army is open to all Americans who meet the standard, regardless of who they are. Embedded within our Constitution is that very principle, that all Americans are free and equal. And we, as an Army, are sworn to protect and defend that very principle. And we are sworn to even die for that principle. So, if we in uniform are willing to die for that principle, then we in uniform should be willing to live by that principle." That's General Milley.