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To Insults Of U.S. Troops, Biden Administration Adds Forcing Female Soldiers To Shower With Men
2021-01-27
[Federalist] Women-only teams at military schools, colleges, and service academies will have to accommodate biological men, regardless of the harm done to women.

Military women and athletes deserve respect and fair treatment, but medical issues that detract from deployability and combat readiness are even more important. Consider extensive data published in the 44-page Defense Department report, which justified the 2018 DoD policy regarding transgender people and persons diagnosed with gender dysphoria. The report followed six months of study by a panel of experts, and it cited Military Health System data gathered during the years Obama-Biden transgender policies were in effect.

During that time, 994 active-duty servicemembers diagnosed with gender dysphoria accounted for 30,000 mental health visits, and their medical costs increased almost 300 percent. In some commands operational and maintenance funds were diverted to pay for active-duty transgender servicemembers’ extensive travel to obtain specialized medical care.

Some units also had to bear high operational costs when individuals preparing for gender transition could live a double life during three to twelve months of “real life experience” (RLE) away from their jobs. In addition, sadly, service members with gender dysphoria were eight times more likely to attempt suicide than service members as a whole (12 percent versus 1.5 percent).

Individuals with gender dysphoria deserve compassion and competent psychological care, not politicized medical counselling and treatments. Such mandates disregard medical ethics, which forbid doctors to provide harmful treatments or surgeries that that will not improve and might worsen the patient’s psychological condition. Recent events suggest there will be no “conscience clauses” that respect the deeply held convictions of doctors and nurses, military chaplains, and people of faith.

On January 17, President Trump’s Acting Attorney General, John B. Daukas, issued a 22-page memorandum titled “Application of Bostock v. Clayton County.” It analyzed the Supreme Court’s landmark 2020 Bostock decision, which found that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans employment discrimination on grounds of “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.”

The ruling, inexplicably written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, did not address other issues, such as housing, education, or the military. Among other things, the Daukas Memorandum maintained that Bostock should not affect constitutional rights of religious liberty.

Incoming Biden administration officials pounced. The Daukas Memo was immediately erased from the DoJ website, including Justice Department archives. Behold Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, stuffing wrong-thinking documents right down the memory hole.
Posted by:ee green

#5  OT: What the he-double hockeysticks is going on with Biden's earlobes?:

Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2021-01-27 20:29  

#4  Joe knows the American people did not elect him and he had to become POTUS fraudulantly. Therefore he will hammer Americans, our troops, etc, at every opportunity.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-01-27 18:05  

#3  You guys obviously haven't seen the movie version of Starship Troopers. There, men and women all showered together. So Joe is just getting ahead of the curve.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2021-01-27 11:33  

#2  Theory: As a youth, fearless leader may remember discussions about European Athletics in Germany circa 1936; in a word Decadent as the Toronto Sun wrote in a 2018 exposé.

So, nothing new here with the bathing arrangements, just another gauge on how low we are sinking in the West under this régime.

Posted by: Clomoper Hupans7392   2021-01-27 09:13  

#1  Biden tries to satisfy his phantasies about being in the military and how he would like things under ideal conditions? Nekkid swimming.

File under: Ding-A-Lings take over the govmint.
Posted by: JohnQC   2021-01-27 08:21  

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