Round Two… Here We Go Again!

The Republicans are trying it again and we are the ping pong ball.

Upset by military ‘wokeness,’ Rubio proposes bill to ban many trans people from serving
McClatchy DC
By Grethel Aguila
February 17, 2023


Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is bringing forth a bill that in many cases would bar transgender people from serving in the military.

While the proposal outlines a few exceptions, it seeks to disqualify anyone who identifies as transgender and who seeks or has undertaken gender reassignment surgery. A transgender person without a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria, Rubio’s draft says, can serve under their sex assigned at birth.

If passed and signed by President Joe Biden — an unlikely scenario — the law would also require the Secretary of Defense to limit the service member database to only collect sex assigned at birth and change any gender markers that “do not match a service member’s biological sex.”

They did it once and they want to punish us for being difference and upsetting their tiny world view. They want to distract people from the real problems.

The Washington Blade wrote,

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced a proposal on Thursday to ban Americans who have a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria from serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.

The lawmakers’ “Ensuring Military Readiness Act” would go further than the transgender military ban enacted in 2017 under former President Donald Trump that was revoked by President Joe Biden just five days after his inauguration in January 2021.

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Rubio and Banks characterized the Biden administration’s revocation of the Trump era ban as, respectively, a move that “turned our military into a woke social experiment” and a “purely political” decision grounded in “far left ideology.”

Republican U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Ted Budd (N.C.), Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) and Mike Braun (Ind.) are the original cosponsors for the bill, which has been endorsed by a coalition of right-wing organizations including the Family Research Council, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group.

WOKE, WOKE, WOKE...

People are waking up to the bigotry, the animosity, and the lies from the right.

When asked;

Spokespeople for Rubio and Banks did not immediately respond to questions about whether efforts would be better spent helping service members and their families with real challenges like housing affordability and food insecurity, or whether they could provide evidence that Biden’s reversal of the Trump-era ban negatively impacted the readiness or performance of the U.S. Armed Services.

Meanwhile at the White House.

“There are a lot of things Marco Rubio could be working on for the American people, including:

• Keeping Americans safe from gun violence with common sense gun legislation
• Lowering prescription drug prices for America’s seniors, including a universal insulin cap
• Protecting and strengthening Medicare and Social Security for America’s seniors.

But at a time when recruiting is a critical priority for our military, Sen. Rubio is instead focusing on blocking patriotic transgender Americans who would die for the United States of America from serving our country. That says a lot more about his priorities than it does about the brave transgender Americans willing to fight and die for our country.”

As Rubio and Banks announced their proposed ban on Thursday, a bipartisan group lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee led by U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) reintroduced a bill that would aid service members and their families who are experiencing hunger and food insecurity.

Smoke and mirrors.

That is what the Republicans are doing… look at these horrible trans people in the military that are causing no one to volunteer! Maybe, just maybe the low volunteer rate might be caused by military families having to go on SNAP, living in dilapidated base housing, and the low pay.

Maybe it is because Trump took billions from the Defense Department's budget to build his wall! The funds were destine for base housing, and schools!

But somehow the Republicans don’t want to talk about that, instead they make us the scapegoat.