Hell No We Won’t Go!

Was the cry of the Vietnam war protesters but now it could be used by trans service members who are going to be kicked out of the military tomorrow.

Trump’s Transgender Ban Brings Chaos and ‘a Lot of Fear’ to Troops’ Families
The hidden impact of President Trump’s transgender troop ban has been on the troops’ loved ones, whose lives, they tell The Daily Beast, have also suddenly been thrown into chaos.
The Daily Beast
By Samantha Allen
April 11, 2019

Peg Fram was driving when she learned the president wanted to fire her spouse.

Back in July 2017, Trump tweeted that “transgender individuals” would no longer be allowed “to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military.” Those “individuals” included Bryan Bree Fram, an Air Force lieutenant colonel and non-binary transgender person who serves as the communications director for the advocacy group SPART*A. Bree called Peg as the latter was driving from Minnesota to D.C. to deliver the news.
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The couple was 14 years deep into military life by that point. They were raising two little girls, who are now aged 10 and six. The family was also single-income: Although Peg has a degree in forensic science, she had stopped working years ago, in part because crime labs were reluctant to hire someone as transient as a military spouse—and because a second job would only go toward child care expenses anyway.

There is no legitimate reason why a trans person cannot serve in the military.

Meghan McCain rips Trump transgender military ban days before implementationThe Hill
By Owen Daugherty
April 10, 2019

Meghan McCain is ripping President Trump’s policy of banning transgender troops from serving in the military, calling it “an unfair, un-American, and dangerous policy.”

In a post on Twitter on Wednesday, McCain said its “indefensible” that the ban is set to go into effect Friday.

“This discriminatory policy will lead Transgender service members, patriots who have decided to serve their nation, to live in the shadows,” she wrote.

Included in her post was a clip from “The View” in which active-duty Army Staff Sgt. Patricia King, who is transgender, spoke about the impact the new policy will have.

“On Friday, the 12th, as many as 15,000 transgender service members stand to lose their jobs,” King said Wednesday on the program. “For those of us who are grandfathered in because we’ve already come out and we already have a diagnosis, there’s the possibility for systematic discrimination.”

Ms. McCain is following in her father’s footsteps. The clip from “The View” is about this…

Transgender Army members talk new military policy on 'The View': 'If you’re transgender you’re simply not welcome'
"If they're transgender, they're at risk of receiving substandard care now."
ABC News
By Joanne Rosa
April 10, 2019

Transgender Army members Staff Sgt. Patricia King and Capt. Jennifer Peace discussed on "The View" Wednesday how the Trump administration's new transgender policy will change the lives of transgender people who currently serve their country and those who plan to join.

Both King and Peace, who is also an intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency, are actively serving in the military. They received the Harvey Milk Foundation Valor Award at this year's Diversity Honors, where they met "The View" co-host Meghan McCain.

The new military transgender policy, instituted by the Pentagon on March 12, will go into effect on Friday, April 12. Under the new policy, transgender people currently serving in the military will be allowed to continue serving so long as they follow the designated dress and grooming standards based on their birth gender.
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King, who has been serving for nearly 20 years, was the first person to have the military finance the cost of her reassignment surgery, but claimed it was a "difficult process" with "a lot of red tape."

I wonder how many of the 15,000 are in critical positions and is going to affect military readiness?

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Legislative Update!

SB 58 AN ACT CONCERNING GAY AND TRANSGENDER PANIC DEFENSE.

Was voted out of the Judiciary Committee with a unanimous vote! 37 Yeas 0 Nays
Next stop is the Senate. The call for vote on the bill was seconded by Sen. Kissel (R) the minority leader in of the committee. So there is hope that this bill will pass and become law.