Poll: 60 Percent of Americans Support Trans In Military

[Carolyn Marie]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-transgender/most-americans-back-transgender-troops-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1QG185

 

 

Carolyn Marie

[Michelle F]

I am not sure if anyone has notice. The current 2019 Administration doesn't give a crap about ANYTHING the American Majority wants, needs or receives!

 

This government is trying it's ultimate hardest to erase ME!  And everyone on this Site. 

 

We are suppose to JUST BE HAPPY!

I bow to No Man!

 

Apparently I'm wrong. Everyone keeps saying VA is helping Trans Veterans.

 

Not me!!! They are making my life miserable!

[killjoyaiden]

The thing is that diabetics are allowed in the military. If it's the hormones that trans individuals need that they're worried about, like Trump claimed, diabetics wouldn't be able to be in the military either. They need insulin more than trans people need hormone shots. They take insulin multiple times everyday, while trans people take hormone shots at least once a week. He just wants to erase us from existence, and this is proven in other political issues that have popped up. I'm so scared that this guy is going to get a second term because the government doesn't seem to care what we think. The same senators have been there for the past 30+ years because they don't have term limits. The government is conservative-controlled instead of independent-controlled, which would be the ideal situation. I'm terrified what this means for us. I hope he gets outta there before anything really, really bad and permanent takes place.

 

I could go on a rant big enough to be a Harry Potter book. But, I won't, because I don't want to get too angry lol.

[Carolyn Marie]

None of this was ever meant to be logical or make sense.  It was a decision made, like so many decisions our President has made, on the spur of the moment, at the urging of some right wing nut job, and Trump's "gut" told him to do it.  Like so many other ridiculous decisions, it was then up to the staff to make it happen; it didn't matter that it made no sense, wasn't logical, didn't have facts on its side, or would hurt many people while helping no one.  Since it was an executive order, it can be undone by another executive order by another, more progressive President somewhere down the line.  That is no consolation to the thousands affected now, but that is how this country works.  We will have our day, just as Black Americans had theirs, and like them, we will have to wait for better times.  

 

In the meantime, we survive....

 

Carolyn Marie

[Charlize]

Legal discrimination will hopefully end at some point but unfortunately (or fortunately at times) the reality that minorities face doesn't change with the passing of a law or change of policy.   We are certainly more accepted now than ever before in this country.  What we are seeing now is an attempt to push us back into a closet.  Unfortunately for those who want us to disappear again the closet is too small now.

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize

[VickySGV]

This is a matter of a small boy playing with his set of toy soldiers.  It is nonsensical and whimsical without regard to the realities of any part of life.  This small boy's "parents" in this game are other "emotional children" who have fantasies of power given to them by people whose self inflicted mental and moral poverty is based in self will propped up by the same children.