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President Donald Trump officially ordered a ban on transgender troops in the US military, tasking Defense Secretary James Mattis with implementing a replacement policy. Already a legal challenge is emerging, as the ACLU vowed, "We'll see you in court."
In one of the last acts of the Obama administration, a de facto ban on transgender people openly serving in the US military was ended. The policy change would go into effect July 1, 2017, and also authorized the Department of Defense as well as the Department of Homeland Security to fund sex-reassignment surgery.
That July 1 deadline was extended to January 1, 2018 earlier this summer, but now implementation of the Obama-era policy change is being put off indefinitely, as a replacement policy is written in the meantime."In my judgment," Trump wrote in the
Friday memo to the secretaries of the Defense and Homeland Security departments, "the previous Administration failed to identify a sufficient basis to conclude that terminating the Departments' longstanding policy and practice would not hinder military effectiveness and lethality, disrupt unit cohesion, or tax military resources, and there remain meaningful concerns that further study is needed to ensure that continued implementation of last year's policy change would not have those negative effects."
Comment: No, it isn't absurd at all. Millions of Americans have about reached their limit of tolerating the corrupt, self-destructive and genocidal policies of the US Deep State. Many now feel as though they have little to lose - and perhaps much to gain - by some form of armed insurrection. However lacking in wisdom this sentiment may seem, the same people who think that this "can never happen" are probably the same people who were shocked by Hillary's losing the election - and suffer from an extreme form of cognitive dissonance in relation to a rather large part of the US citizenry - concerning what they're seeing and feeling about where the country is going.
See:
America's second Civil War
The outlines of a U.S. civil war can now be seen
The coup against Trump will be televised but the counter-coup will lead to civil war