(EFE).- The Biden administration on Monday overturned a policy instituted by his predecessor that required transgender individuals in America’s armed forces to serve under their biological sex.
Joe Biden signed an executive order that “sets the policy that all Americans who are qualified to serve in the Armed Forces of the United States should be able to serve,” a White House fact sheet reads.
“President Biden believes that gender identity should not be a bar to military service, and that America’s strength is found in its diversity,” the text said. “Allowing all qualified Americans to serve their country in uniform is better for the military and better for the country because an inclusive force is a more effective force.”
Biden’s move reverses a directive that his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, issued in March 2018.
It also directs the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Coast Guard, to ensure that all of their directives, orders, regulations and policies are consistent with the executive order.
The order furthermore directs an immediate start to the identification and examination of the records of service members who “have been involuntarily separated, discharged or denied reenlistment or continuation of service on the basis of gender identity or under circumstances relating to gender identity, as well as the correction of the military records.”
Biden pledged during his election campaign to repeal Trump’s transgender policy and said it would be one of his priorities on “Day 1,” although it was not part of a series of executive orders he signed hours after his inauguration last Wednesday.
The administration of former head of state Barack Obama, whose vice president was Biden, lifted a ban on transgender troops in the US military in 2016.
But Trump announced in a series of tweets in July 2017 that he planned to bar all transgender people from serving in the Armed Forces, saying their presence entails “tremendous medical cost and disruption” and diverts the military’s attention away from what must be “decisive and overwhelming victory.”
In March 2018, Trump issued a memorandum to his defense secretary disqualifying from military service transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria (a distressed state arising from conflict between a person’s gender identity and the sex the person has or was identified as having at birth).
After court challenges and a January 2019 narrow ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the Trump administration’s directive, the Defense Department released a new policy two months later that allowed transgender individuals to enlist in the military on condition that they serve in their biological sex.
That policy was not retroactive, meaning that transgender individuals who joined the military in their preferred gender or were diagnosed with gender dysphoria before the 2018 policy took effect were exempt from the new policy and allowed to serve in their preferred gender.
Citing Defense Department data, the Palm Center, a California-based public policy think tank, said in 2018 that there were 8,980 active duty transgender troops in the US Armed Forces. EFE
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Thursday, March 12, 2015. Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
“Biden went on to assure the pro-LGBT crowd that even though the Obama administration cannot enforce a thought police, people who stand for their religious convictions are in the process of being wiped out — as the White House’s homosexual agenda continues to proliferate across the nation. Carson
and others who ascribe to the biblical view of homosexuality should be eradicated from the planet in the name of “equality” and “tolerance.” “
Lev 20:13, Romans 1:18-32
Have you ever wondered why tinkerbell obama and his B. buddy Biden are so obsessed with and promoting the LGBTQ lifestyle? 👿
They say there are no atheists in foxholes,,,,now thanks to Biden there won’t be any true believing Christians either. It’s the Democrat military foxhole love version of three on a match, that will get our troops blown up.
Hey Scruff, I retired from the Military. I started out in the Air Force in 1968, got out in 1972, and rejoined the Air Guard in 1984. I can remember the whole slew of things that would prohibit Military Service, and psychological issues would be right up there at the top. If a person can’t decide what sex he or she is, I’m pretty sure that would indicate a Major Psych Problem. Homosexuals have always served in the Military, and we all knew the ones in question, but as long as they performed their jobs and weren’t blatant, we looked the other way. However this Transexual situation goes WAY beyond the norms. The LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ community have been pushing an agenda that they are the normal ones and Heterosexuals are the abnormal ones. Marxist Communist DemocRATS have been helping their cause in undermining OUR Patriotic Fighting Forces.
IT DAMN WELL should be a prohibition.. BUT THEN when have libtards, ever let sense, get in the way of their stupidity.
In the Navy before the tinkerbell B. Obama reign. If one was caught in a LGBTQ act, they were immediately put in the brig for their own protection. If not someone would throw them overboard. (oops) Thieves and homosexual conduct were considered an abomination. But if these things stayed in the closet and didn’t flaunt their perversions they were usually left alone.
Ahh, the waste of time known as don’t ask don’t tell..
Shows that the old saying “There’s no atheist in foxholes” needs to be changed to “There are ONLY atheist in foxholes.” Heck of a feeling with bullets flying overhead and artillery shells exploding all around that your just a meaningless number on a census report.
I wonder, how many of my FELLOW Squids, who STAYED In, are now thinking, with all this?!
Yep, the executive order by the “moderate” Uncle Joe, makes the American taxpayer pay for the “transition” from a male to female or visa versa. The communists / Democrats make the taxpayer pay for a perversion.
MORE and more, i am glad i am already retired. CAUSE IF THIS IS the state of affairs, when i was 18, i seriously doubt i’d have ever joined, even just for 4 years.. LET alone made a career out of it..
well… I guess this is one way to disband the military… 90% will just quit and no one will sign up now… another well thought out liberal idea … brought to you by the communist party that now controls all 3 of the government branches from a fraudulent election system controlled by the very same. It’s only fitting to quote Yakov Smirnoff…. “Whata’ couuntry”
One website frequently found on a Biden laptop where they don’t just shoot, but often salute from the hip. Maybe Joe can be the first President to list himself on a gay website, but I think Obama beat him to it. He and Pelosi are so good at being first at things unthinkable, but always looking for connections and affections.
https://www.gaymilitarydating.com/
THIS is definitely the top of the list for bye-dim being a nut case. If these “odd balls” get into the military, and there is a combat situation, where the concentration should be on the enemy, it cannot be on some weirdo next to you, attempting to kiss you or something else. I have personally seen what can happen in a situation like that. Odd balls used to get in, by lying that they were “straight”, then once in, they “do their thing. There was one combat situation, under very heavy fire, that an odd ball picked the wrong time to put his “feelings” into action. He was soon met by “FRIENDLY FIRE”. And there was one less odd ball in the company. Nobody knew who did it, and nobody cared who did it.
This was a crucially important decision. If less that 1% of all Americans serve in the Armed forces (Approx 1.5 million) and trans genders make up about .042%, he affected at MOST 6,300 people. My guess is the actual number is closer to 5-50. Yes, hugely important.
As we’ve seen for donkey’s years. IT SEEMS the smaller the minority you are, the BIGGER INFLUENCE you seem to have on laws…
Biden has been the poster boy for evil and what can be expected
of him will be worse as time goes bye. He can repent or take the
consequences on judgment day, so it goes……….William
“President Biden believes that gender identity should not be a bar to military service, and that America’s strength is found in its diversity,” the text said. “Allowing all qualified Americans to serve their country in uniform is better for the military and better for the country because an inclusive force is a more effective force.”
An amazing statement! It actually sounds good, it sounds as if it’s true, as if it makes sense, and the right thing to do. In truth it’s nothing but nonsense and propaganda, it will harm, not strengthen our military. It’s lying weasel horse dockey! 1984 has truly arrived!
I’d actually LOVE TO SEE someone show VIA STATS and actual REPORTS< whether a "Inclusive/diverse military REALLY IS MORE effective!" IF SAID report/stats existed that is.