{"id":134173,"date":"2017-08-10T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T00:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134173"},"modified":"2017-08-10T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T01:10:34","slug":"trump-babbles-transgender-people-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/10\/trump-babbles-transgender-people-military.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump babbles some more about transgender people in the military"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back on 26 July, Trump rambled off a prepared (but unexpected) trio of tweets about how transgender people would not be allowed to serve in the military. Apparently he’s given the Pentagon no further instruction, no policy guidelines about what to do regarding trans folk already serving, etc. The Pentagon, in turn, basically said they would keep on keeping on per current policy until something more definitive got passed on from the Commander-in-Chief.<\/p>\n

Well today, three weeks later, Trump discussed the subject again<\/a>, in unplanned remarks to the press. Definitive it was not.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s been a very confusing issue for the military, and I think I\u2019m doing the military a great favor,\u201d Mr. Trump said during an impromptu news conference at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.<\/p>\n

He declared that he has \u201cgreat respect\u201d for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and denied that his ban amounted to a betrayal after pledging to protect it during last year\u2019s campaign.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve had great support from that community,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cI got a lot of votes.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the military is \u201cworking on it now,\u201d adding that \u201cI think I\u2019m doing a lot of people a favor by coming out and just saying it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Who, precisely, he’s doing a favor for, and what “it” specifically means, was not clarified by the President — and the Pentagon apparently\u00a0still<\/em> has no official guidance on the matter.<\/p>\n

As to the military — well, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense certainly haven’t expressed any “confusion” over the issue, simply asking for time to work policies out as to how best to address and integrate trans soldiers into the service. Apparently all of them were blindsided by the initial tweets, and I don’t see anything in this update that’s likely to be helpful to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back on 26 July, Trump rambled off a prepared (but unexpected) trio of tweets about how transgender people would not be allowed to serve in the military. Apparently he’s given the Pentagon no further instruction, no policy guidelines about what to do regarding trans folk already serving, etc. The Pentagon, in turn, basically said they … Continue reading “Trump babbles some more about transgender people in the military”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,349,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gay-stuff","category-military","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Transgender-Trump-ban-rtr-img1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133982,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/28\/a-look-at-the-constitutionality-of-trumps-military-transgender-ban.html","url_meta":{"origin":134173,"position":0},"title":"A look at the constitutionality of Trump's military transgender ban","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Jul-17 9:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"First off, this assumes that Trump is actually serious about the matter, since he just rattled it off (from some sort of prepared statement, but still out of the blue) in his Twitter stream without any prep or further guidance to the Pentagon as to exactly what he meant or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134015,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/01\/over-50-retired-admirals-and-generals-ask-trump-to-reverse-his-transgender-ban.html","url_meta":{"origin":134173,"position":1},"title":"Over 50 retired admirals and generals ask Trump to reverse his transgender ban","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Aug-17 3:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that, as far as I've read, Trump has done anything more than tweet a statement about banning all transgender individuals from the military, but a group of retired generals and admirals have called on him to formally retract that tweet. \u275d The top military officials said in a letter\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":139053,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/donald-trump-revisits-why-he-banned-transgender-folk-from-the-military.html","url_meta":{"origin":134173,"position":2},"title":"Donald Trump revisits why he banned transgender folk from the military","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Jun-19 1:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is, at best, delusional. At worst, it's simple self-justified prejudice.","rel":"","context":"In "Civil Liberties"","block_context":{"text":"Civil Liberties","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/civil-liberties"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/trump-lgbt-flag.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/trump-lgbt-flag.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/trump-lgbt-flag.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/trump-lgbt-flag.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":135620,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/us-military-will-enlist-transgender-people-1-january.html","url_meta":{"origin":134173,"position":3},"title":"The US military will enlist transgender people as of 1 January","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Dec-17 3:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A third federal court has ruled there was no justifiable basis for the Pentagon to deny such enlistment, despite Trump's orders to do so. 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