This video
where Biden's hand
disappears into the microphone white/grey fluff
at first "anon eyes" glance
made me think of Bongo cat. Biden is not the President.
We get shown shit every day.
This video
needs to be changed
to make the fluffy microphone
that same Bongo cat with face forward.
https://youtu.be/k_49UeN_WHw
>This video
>needs to be changed
>to make the fluffy microphone
>that same Bongo cat with face forward.
take your mind of the serious shit for a moment
LMFAOOOOOO THE WAY HE WAS STRUGGLING
https://twitter.com/FitWithMarilyn/status/1372044120965873665
https://twitter.com/3ree6ixty/status/1372310277908099074
Hahahahahaha the battle between them is great
hahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1372356814986092547
Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
I guess mosques are now banned in London.
https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/1372258572734717954
Mayor of London.Quote Tweet
Sadiq Khan
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NEW: Misogyny will now be recorded as a hate crime - a HUGE victory for everyone involved in this cross-party campaign. It’s time for every Londoner to call out sexist & misogynistic attitudes wherever they are found – in the workplace, school, on the streets or public transport.
6:18 PM · Mar 17, 2021
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1372357079160082433
Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
You should say things you're discouraged from saying.
6:19 PM · Mar 17, 2021
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1372357079160082433
>You should say things you're discouraged from saying.
looney
@C8Luna
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@stillgray
I really don’t like big butts.
JoJo
@jojo44813
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@stillgray
Americans have given up and willingly accepted their punishment for once upon a time being proud and free. The world is laughing
Rev. Malachi Corbeau, KSC, SbG, Furry Pope
@NECacophony
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@stillgray
Is now a bad time to post screenshots of all your old white nationalist rants?
Super Straight Sarah Good Flag of United States
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Who cares. White majority countries are the best! That’s why everyone wants to move to them. I don’t see people flocking to get into countries in Africa. There’s a reason. Now stop trying to change white majority countries into the shit holes from whence you came.
ChrisFlag of CanadaIce hockey stick and puckFour leaf clover
@ChrisNunnBear
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@stillgray
Jesus saves.
Capt Murdock
@RamboCapt
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@stillgray
White people are responsible or some of the greatest accomplishments of the human race.
Capt Murdock
@RamboCapt
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@stillgray
Native American tribes enslaved and killed each other.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1372357079160082433
AMERICAN NEWS Mar 17, 2021 6:05 PM EST
-US military gets WOKE and DEMANDS LGBTQI+ enforcement-
American policy now officially demands a focus on identity politics.
American policy now officially demands a focus on identity politics.
The main crux of this piece comes to us from Jim Hanson.
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Jim Hanson 🇺🇸
@JimHansonDC
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3h
Holy Not Your Freakin' Job!
DOD memo says US military will promote LGBTQRSTetc rights as official duty
They can do it when not focused like a laser on Climate Change & Racism
Warfighting?
Sorry
Got Wokeness to spread
Jim Hanson 🇺🇸
@JimHansonDC
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1h
Aside from the woke insanity of this
Here's a good thread on the practical consequences:
https://twitter.com/Snakeeater36/status/1372330296314576908
RedDevil Smiling face with horns
@Snakeeater36
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Ok Im NOT entertaining the “woke Army” argument when I’m posting this. i have a genuine question. Read those bullet points. Now consider WHAT countries we train in the context of partner force.
With that context in mind how many units we train do you think would lose funding 1/
RedDevil Smiling face with horns
@Snakeeater36
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@Snakeeater36
So now think about this. How many will? I understand there is a some checks we have to balance etc. but i think it pays to ask the question of, if X country calls our bluff, are we pulling funding. What if its a strategic location/PF? 2/
RedDevil Smiling face with horns
@Snakeeater36
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3h
It really begs the question are we willing to go through with this to the extent we are saying. Or are we saying it to say it? I dunno. I have no issues with anyone serving so long as the standard is met. PERIOD. But expecting anything outside of our service? I dunno.
RedDevil Smiling face with horns
@Snakeeater36
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2h
Like look past whatever “woke” or “progressive” rhetoric being said. Evaluate this strategically. Movement towards inclusion is a battle here. Imagine imposing that on another PF or ally may have some implications we aren’t considering.
The memo Jim posted starts out by the Department of Defense defining itself as a party applicable to a February 4th memo issued by President Biden. One in which he demanded the “promoting and protecting the human rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) persons.”
The US military are essentially being reduced to the role of political activists.
The Department of Defense lists several ways in which they’ll carry out Biden’s policy:
“Strengthen existing efforts to combat the criminalization by foreign governments of LGBTQI+ status or conduct and expand efforts to combat discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, and intolerance on the basis of LGBTQI+ status or conduct.”
“Expand ongoing efforts to ensure regular DoD engagement with governments, citizens, civil society, and the private sector to promote respect for the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons and combat discrimination.”
“Consider the impact of programs funded by DoD on human rights, including the rights of LGBTQI+ persons, when making funding decisions.”
“Strengthen the work DoD has done and initiate additional efforts with other nations, bilaterally and within multilateral fora and international organizations, to: counter discrimination on the basis of LGBTQI+ status or conduct; broaden the number of countries willing to support and defend the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons; strengthen the role, including in multilateral fora, of civil society advocates on behalf of the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons; and strengthen the policies and programming of multilateral institutions, including with respect to protecting vulnerable LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers.”
In recent days Fox News host Tucker Carlson has faced controversy for criticizing the military’s focus shift to identity politics. It was also recently revealed that Biden’s executive orders are forcing taxpayer dollars to fund gender transition surgeries for military service members.
White House insider Jack Posobiec also recently got an inside look at how the military is dealing with the extremism stand down order. One commenter mentioned how none of the slides presented dealt with those condemning former President Trump, nor those who support Jihad activity or BLM/Antifa riots. Another Air Force member complained how members of the military are being programmed to accept a particular narrative when it relates to extremism: one that focuses entirely on right-wing activity and completely excuses leftist radicalization.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/02/04/memorandum-advancing-the-human-rights-of-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer-and-intersex-persons-around-the-world/
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Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
This memorandum reaffirms and supplements the principles established in the Presidential Memorandum of December 6, 2011 (International Initiatives to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons). That memorandum, for the first time, directed executive departments and agencies (agencies) engaged abroad to ensure that United States diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons everywhere. This memorandum builds upon that historic legacy and updates the 2011 memorandum.
All human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love. Around the globe, including here at home, brave lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) activists are fighting for equal protection under the law, freedom from violence, and recognition of their fundamental human rights. The United States belongs at the forefront of this struggle — speaking out and standing strong for our most dearly held values. It shall be the policy of the United States to pursue an end to violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sex characteristics, and to lead by the power of our example in the cause of advancing the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons around the world.
Through this memorandum, I am directing all agencies engaged abroad to ensure that United States diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons. Specifically, I direct the following actions, consistent with applicable law:
Section 1. Combating Criminalization of LGBTQI+ Status or Conduct Abroad. Agencies engaged abroad are directed to strengthen existing efforts to combat the criminalization by foreign governments of LGBTQI+ status or conduct and expand efforts to combat discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, and intolerance on the basis of LGBTQI+ status or conduct. The Department of State shall, on an annual basis and as part of the annual report submitted to the Congress pursuant to sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d) and 2304(b)), report on human rights abuses experienced by LGBTQI+ persons globally. This reporting shall include anti-LGBTQI+ laws as well as violence and discrimination committed by both state and nonstate actors against LGBTQI+ persons.
Sec. 2. Protecting Vulnerable LGBTQI+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers. LGBTQI+ persons who seek refuge from violence and persecution face daunting challenges. In order to improve protection for LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers at all stages of displacement, the Departments of State and Homeland Security shall enhance their ongoing efforts to ensure that LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers have equal access to protection and assistance, particularly in countries of first asylum. In addition, the Departments of State, Justice, and Homeland Security shall ensure appropriate training is in place so that relevant Federal Government personnel and key partners can effectively identify and respond to the particular needs of LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers, including by providing to them adequate assistance and ensuring that the Federal Government takes all appropriate steps, such as potential increased use of Embassy Priority-1 referrals, to identify and expedite resettlement of highly vulnerable persons with urgent protection needs.
Sec. 3. Foreign Assistance to Protect Human Rights and Advance Nondiscrimination. Agencies involved with foreign aid, assistance, and development programs shall expand their ongoing efforts to ensure regular Federal Government engagement with governments, citizens, civil society, and the private sector to promote respect for the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons and combat discrimination. Agencies involved with foreign aid, assistance, and development programs should consider the impact of programs funded by the Federal Government on human rights, including the rights of LGBTQI+ persons, when making funding decisions, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law.
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Sec. 4. Swift and Meaningful United States Responses to Human Rights Abuses of LGBTQI+ Persons Abroad. The Department of State shall lead a standing group, with appropriate interagency representation, to help ensure the Federal Government’s swift and meaningful response to serious incidents that threaten the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons abroad. When foreign governments move to restrict the rights of LGBTQI+ persons or fail to enforce legal protections in place, thereby contributing to a climate of intolerance, agencies engaged abroad shall consider appropriate responses, including using the full range of diplomatic and assistance tools and, as appropriate, financial sanctions, visa restrictions, and other actions.
Sec. 5. Building Coalitions of Like-Minded Nations and Engaging International Organizations in the Fight Against LGBTQI+ Discrimination. Bilateral relationships with allies and partners, as well as multilateral fora and international organizations, are key vehicles to promote respect for and protection of the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons and to bring global attention to these goals. Agencies engaged abroad should strengthen the work they have done and initiate additional efforts with other nations, bilaterally and within multilateral fora and international organizations, to: counter discrimination on the basis of LGBTQI+ status or conduct; broaden the number of countries willing to support and defend the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons; strengthen the role, including in multilateral fora, of civil society advocates on behalf of the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons; and strengthen the policies and programming of multilateral institutions, including with respect to protecting vulnerable LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers.
Sec. 6. Rescinding Inconsistent Policies and Reporting on Progress. Within 100 days of the date of this memorandum or as soon as possible thereafter, all agencies engaged abroad shall review and, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, take steps to rescind any directives, orders, regulations, policies, or guidance inconsistent with this memorandum, including those issued from January 20, 2017, to January 20, 2021, to the extent that they are inconsistent with this memorandum. The heads of such agencies shall also, within 100 days of the date of this memorandum, report to the President on their progress in implementing this memorandum and recommend additional opportunities and actions to advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons around the world. Agencies engaged abroad shall each prepare a report within 180 days of the date of this memorandum, and annually thereafter, on their progress toward advancing these initiatives. All such agencies shall submit these reports to the Department of State, which will compile a report on the Federal Government’s progress in advancing these initiatives for transmittal to the President. The Department of State shall make a version of the compiled annual report available to the Congress and the public.
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Sec. 7. Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this memorandum, agencies engaged abroad include the Departments of State, the Treasury, Defense, Justice, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, and such other agencies as the President may designate.
(b) For the purposes of this memorandum, agencies involved with foreign aid, assistance, and development programs include the Departments of State, the Treasury, Defense, Justice, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security, USAID, DFC, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, and such other agencies as the President may designate.
Sec. 8. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(d) The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
It was also recently revealed that Biden’s executive orders are forcing taxpayer dollars to fund gender transition surgeries for military service members.
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-executive-order-directs-government-to-fund-gender-transition-surgeries-for-military-men-and-women
AMERICAN NEWS Mar 10, 2021 1:44 PM EST
Biden executive order directs government to fund gender transition surgeries for military men and women
What seemed advertised as simply an anti-discrimination measure turns out to be a facilitation of gender transition surgeries with taxpayer dollars.
The story begins with the the "Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform" executive order signed by President Biden on January 25th. The first section is mostly focused on the policy outline in itself. At a glance it seems as if the EO is simply about allowing transgendered persons to serve alongside everyone else in the military.
A closer look reveals more. Tucked away within the paragraphs it says: "the Secretary of Defense also concluded that it was appropriate to create a process that would enable service members to take steps to transition gender while serving."
Section 3A is what’s relevant (bold emphasis added):
"The Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard, shall, after consultation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff about how best to implement this policy and consistent with applicable law, take all necessary steps to ensure that all directives, orders, regulations, and policies of their respective departments are consistent with this order. These steps shall include establishing a process by which transgender service members may transition gender while serving, along with any further steps that the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Homeland Security deem appropriate to advance the policy described in section 1 of this order."
Indeed the same pattern follows from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's press release that day. Both this and the EO promise to deliver policy and procedure results within a 60 day turnaround.
The clincher is a VA email to employees, according to the Washington Examiner. McDonough flat-out said: "Perform an assessment of the necessary steps to eliminate the exclusion of 'gender alteration' (gender affirmation surgery) in the medical benefits package."
The outlet interviewed Rep. Jim Banks about the issue. While he's supportive of transgendered people in the military, he's against taxpayer dollars paying for gender transition surgeries. Lt. General Thomas Spoehr said "someone has to pick up the slack while you are gone" in response to the Biden EO. As it reads, General Spoehr believes it allows any service member can get up and leave in the middle of a conflict, and leave the rest of a military unit hanging in the wind.
The outlet interviewed Rep. Jim Banks about the issue. While he's supportive of transgendered people in the military, he's against taxpayer dollars paying for gender transition surgeries. Lt. General Thomas Spoehr said "someone has to pick up the slack while you are gone" in response to the Biden EO. As it reads, General Spoehr believes it allows any service member can get up and leave in the middle of a conflict, and leave the rest of a military unit hanging in the wind.
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2481568/statement-by-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-on-transgender-service-in/
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on Transgender Service in the Military
JAN. 25, 2021
I fully support the President’s direction that all transgender individuals who wish to serve in the United States military and can meet the appropriate standards shall be able to do so openly and free from discrimination.
The Department will immediately take appropriate policy action to ensure individuals who identify as transgender are eligible to enter and serve in their self-identified gender. These changes will ensure no one will be separated or discharged, or denied reenlistment, solely on the basis of gender identity. Prospective recruits may serve in their self-identified gender when they have met the appropriate standards for accession into the military services. This revised policy will also ensure all medically-necessary transition related care authorized by law is available to all Service members and will re-examine all cases of transgender Service members that may be in some form of adverse administrative proceedings.
Over the next 60 days, I look forward to working with the senior civilian and military leaders of the Department as we expeditiously develop the appropriate policies and procedures to implement these changes.
The United States Armed Forces are in the business of defending our fellow citizens from our enemies, foreign and domestic. I believe we accomplish that mission more effectively when we represent all our fellow citizens. I also believe we should avail ourselves of the best possible talent in our population, regardless of gender identity. We would be rendering ourselves less fit to the task if we excluded from our ranks people who meet our standards and who have the skills and the devotion to serve in uniform.
This is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing to do.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/military-transgender-surgery-free
Transgender surgery is now free for military, thanks to Biden executive order
by Tori Richards | March 10, 2021 07:00 AM
Taxpayers will now foot the bill for gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel and veterans, with some treatments costing upward of $200,000 under an executive order signed by President Biden.
Tucked inside Biden’s Jan. 25 transgender order, “Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform,” is a clause that repeals an Obama-era policy that prohibited federally funded reassignment surgery. This was followed up by memos from both Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough specifically stating that surgery is now an added benefit.
“This revised policy will also ensure all medically-necessary transition related care authorized by law is available to all Service members,” Austin wrote.
In a VA email to employees, McDonough echoed: “Perform an assessment of the necessary steps to eliminate the exclusion of ‘gender alteration’ (gender affirmation surgery) in the medical benefits package.”
Neither official stated how much the added benefit would cost but rather pledged to undertake an analysis.
FORMER MARYLAND POLICE CHIEF ARRESTED ON ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE
Online charts by the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery show a plethora of elective surgeries for both men and women that add up to $100,000-$200,000. Although Biden stated in his order that the cost of treating transgender troops would have minimal impact on healthcare costs, that is not borne out by a 2019 USA Today investigation. The news analysis revealed that the Pentagon spent $8 million to treat just 1,500 transgender military officials, which included hormone treatments and some surgeries. It was not clear why the surgeries were allowed at that time.
A federal study revealed that more than 15,000 service members and 134,000 veterans identify as transgender.
Rep. Jim Banks, an Indiana Republican, is an Afghanistan veteran and sits on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. He supports transgender individuals serving in the military and said he served with people with diverse backgrounds. But he disputes that the public should pay for surgical intervention.
“This is radical and new territory for a presidential administration to force taxpayers to fund sexual reassignment surgeries for those in the military,” he told the Washington Examiner. “I’m compassionate toward those individuals who want to undergo an elective surgery of this nature, but taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook to pay for it. It’s constitutionally dubious that Congress hasn’t passed these measures, but the administration, in a radical way, is pushing through this agenda. I sit on the committee that should debate these issues.”
The order also violates the religious liberties of Catholics and Christians who oppose such a procedure, Banks said.
Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, who commanded U.S. Army forces in Iraq and now directs the Heritage Center for National Defense, says Biden’s order currently reads like anyone in a war zone can suddenly take leave to undergo reassignment surgery.
“I would like to think the Pentagon would come up with a procedure … It’s completely irrational to change your gender right in front of a conflict,” he said. “A lot of people [in the military] are outraged by this idea that you can just come in and get this [surgery] and be gone from your unit. Someone has to pick up the slack while you are gone.”
Biden has made transgender people a protected class because other recruits are not accepted if they have an existing medical condition that would require ongoing treatment, he said. Spoehr also predicted that many would join the military to receive free surgery.
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, blasted Biden’s “social experimentation” as a follow-up to former President Barack Obama’s 2016 inclusiveness mandate that he said created chaos with sensitivity trainings and bathroom retrofits.
“By 2019, the Defense Department announced that it had redirected funds from salaries, equipment, and trainings for 22,992 psychotherapy visits, 9,321 hormone prescriptions, and a whopping 161 surgeries (ranging from hysterectomies and breast augmentation to 'male reproductive' construction),” Perkins said in a press release. “While America faces rising threats from around the world, it's obvious that Joe Biden is only interested in using our military to fight one war: the culture's.”
Transgender surgery is now free for military, thanks to Biden executive order
>by Tori Richards | March 10, 2021 07:00 AM
Recent Findings
There are approximately 134,300 transgender veterans and 15,000 ADSMs. Based on diagnostic codes, more than 5000 transgender veterans receive care in VHA. Transgender veterans experience higher rates of most mental and physical health conditions compared to non-transgender veterans. Comprehensive health care is provided at VHA facilities, except surgical interventions for gender confirmation, and is beginning to be provided in military facilities.
read more:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-017-0120-7
Online charts by the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery show a plethora of elective surgeries for both men and women that add up to $100,000-$200,000. Although Biden stated in his order that the cost of treating transgender troops would have minimal impact on healthcare costs, that is not borne out by a 2019 USA Today investigation. The news analysis revealed that the Pentagon spent $8 million to treat just 1,500 transgender military officials, which included hormone treatments and some surgeries. It was not clear why the surgeries were allowed at that time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/27/exclusive-report-shows-8-million-spent-more-than-1-500-transgender-troops-pentagon-dysphoria/2991706002/
Exclusive: Pentagon spent nearly $8 million to treat 1,500 transgender troops since 2016
https://transequality.org/issues/military-veterans
It’s estimated that over 134,000 American veterans are transgender, and over 15,000 trans people are serving in military today. Support for transgender veterans has improved, but they still face barriers from obtaining updated service records that do not out them as transgender, and from receiving VA coverage of necessary medical procedures. Find out more about advances and challenges for transgender veterans and service members, and how to get support.
Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, who commanded U.S. Army forces in Iraq and now directs the Heritage Center for National Defense, says Biden’s order currently reads like anyone in a war zone can suddenly take leave to undergo reassignment surgery.
“I would like to think the Pentagon would come up with a procedure … It’s completely irrational to change your gender right in front of a conflict,” he said. “A lot of people [in the military] are outraged by this idea that you can just come in and get this [surgery] and be gone from your unit. Someone has to pick up the slack while you are gone.”
Thomas Spoehr
Director, Center for National Defense
Thomas W. Spoehr conducts and supervises research on national defense matters.
Thomas Spoehr serves as director of Heritage's Center for National Defense where he is responsible for supervising research on matters involving U.S. national defense. Prior to joining Heritage, Spoehr served for over 36 years in the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of Lieutenant General. He is an expert on national defense policy and strategy, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on defense strategy, budgets and equipment modernization. Spoehr’s articles and commentary have been published widely in both civilian and military media and he is often called upon to provide expert commentary and analysis.
Early military service included operational assignments ensuring Army and joint forces were proficient in countering weapons of mass destruction (WMD) which consist of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons. As one of the Army’s foremost uniformed experts in this area, Spoehr served as the Commandant of the Army’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear School, with the responsibility for the policy, training and strategy for this critical area. In the wake of the 2015 incident involving the shipment of live anthrax spores by Defense laboratories, Spoehr was asked by the Secretary of the Army to lead a Task Force which concluded in 2016 with the approval of a comprehensive regime of corrective actions to prevent future incidents.
Later in his Army career, Spoehr served in senior leadership positions in the Pentagon, responsible for charting the Army’s future year financial plans, developing equipment modernization strategies, and achieving business efficiencies and reform. He became passionate that every dollar provided to the U.S. military is applied to directly improve readiness and not wasted; analysis and recommendations conducted by Spoehr have been used by the Secretary of the Army and other senior leaders to reduce or eliminate military headquarters, reduce back-office costs, and streamline lengthy bureaucratic processes, saving millions of taxpayer dollars. He has published articles describing methods to make the military more efficient and effective, and is a widely requested speaker on these topics.
His operational experiences include service with combat units including the 82nd Airborne Division and the 1st Armored Division. Spoehr participated in Operation Urgent Fury (the invasion of Grenada) and in 2011 served as the Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Forces Iraq in Operation New Dawn, where he successfully oversaw the safe withdrawal of all U.S. forces and equipment from Iraq ahead of schedule, one of the most complex and logistically intensive operations ever attempted by the U.S. military.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, a Masters of Arts in Public Administration from Webster University in St. Louis, MO, and a Master of Arts in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA.
He and his wife, Cynthia, live in Alexandria, Virginia, where he enjoys kayaking, home repair, and hiking. They have two grown children, Catherine and Peter, who served with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Afghanistan, and two grandchildren.
“By 2019, the Defense Department announced that it had redirected funds from salaries, equipment, and trainings for 22,992 psychotherapy visits, 9,321 hormone prescriptions, and a whopping 161 surgeries (ranging from hysterectomies and breast augmentation to 'male reproductive' construction),” Perkins said in a press release. “While America faces rising threats from around the world, it's obvious that Joe Biden is only interested in using our military to fight one war: the culture's.”
https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WA21A47&f=WU21A15
Biden: Military's 'Special Operations' to Include Gender Surgery
January 25, 2021
If there was a honeymoon, it's over. Less than a week into the administration that isn't Donald Trump's, a surprising number of Americans are already regretting his replacement. Within hours of his swearing in, Joe Biden got right to work – alienating core constituencies with his attacks on oil, energy, unions, jobs, and women. Industries that had lined up to support the Democrat were stunned. What happened to the moderate president they were promised? When Biden said he'd unite America, no one knew it would be against him.
Just three days in, the hashtag #BidenRemorse started popping up on social media. By then, the new president had stopped work on the border wall, shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline, and issued an oil and gas moratorium for drilling on federal land – firing tens of thousands of workers in the process. "Deeply disappointed" was how the head of the North American Building Trade put it, after endorsing Biden in October. "[This] will kill thousands of good-paying #UNION jobs!" tweeted the Laborers' International Union of North America. "[It's] insulting," the Laborers' president fumed. "[Biden is] pandering to environmental extremists" and middle America, the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters argued, will pay for it.
In areas like New Mexico, where Biden raked in 54 percent of the vote, local leaders were just as appalled. The administration's new ban on drilling is a death knell for the state, Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway warned. "[President Biden]… is destroying what's left of our state's economy. How does that bring us together?" he wondered. According to most Americans, it doesn't. Only one in five people in this country have a "great deal of confidence" that Joe Biden can bring the nation together. His early moves, everything from ending women's sports to nixing reliable work, have already made skeptics of key parts of his base.
Just as controversial, some say, is who Biden is giving the dwindling number of jobs to. He's throwing open the borders to Central America caravans and promising amnesty to 11 million undocumented workers. At a time of massive unemployment, that means even more competition for work.
And in places like the military, a radical makeover is guaranteeing that the men and women who do have jobs will be too busy embracing political correctness to execute them. After Donald Trump spent four years rebuilding our troops, Joe Biden threw the military back into turmoil by upending the ban on transgender service Monday. "It is my conviction as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces," he wrote in his executive order, "that gender identity should not be a bar to military service."
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Unfortunately for our troops, the new president doesn't seem to care how his social experimentation affects our actual warfighting. Unlike Donald Trump, who insisted the military study the comprehensive effects of such a policy, Joe Biden from the so-called "party of science" has not asked for any updated information. In fact, he claimed this morning that opening the doors to transgenderism "does not have any meaningful negative impact on the Armed Forces" and "minimal" effect on "readiness and health care costs."
That's interesting, since the findings of then-Secretary James Mattis in 2018 were that the Obama administration had to ignore stacks of research to justify the change. After wading through 21 months of actual fallout, the DOD believed that introducing this type of gender chaos into the military presented a "considerable risk" to its "effectiveness and lethality." The memo does a great job dismantling the flawed and outdated RAND study that both Presidents Obama and Biden have used to prop up their decision. After almost two years of seeing the real impact on troops, the DOD argued that RAND had "mischaracterize[d] or overstate[d] the reports on which it rests its conclusions" (p. 39). "In fact," officials write, "the RAND study itself repeatedly emphasized the lack of quality data on these issues and qualified its conclusions accordingly" – a fact the Biden administration hasn't bothered to mention.
"Military standards are high for a reason," Secretary Mattis wrote in the report, "the trauma of war, which all service members must be prepared to face, demands physical, mental, and moral standards that will give all service members the greatest chance to survive their ordeal with their bodies, minds, and moral character intact. The Department would be negligent to sacrifice those standards for any cause."
Back in 2016, when Barack Obama first injected gender confusion into the ranks, the result was absolute chaos. Instead of making our troops more effective, efficient, and deadly, commanders were retrofitting bathrooms, ordering sensitivity trainings, rewriting health care policies, and worrying how to combat the low morale. At the time, FRC's Peter Sprigg warned that it could cost taxpayers up to $3.7 billion over the next 10 years for medical costs and lost deployment time – more than enough, we pointed out, to buy a Navy destroyer. And like a destroyer, this decision is equally capable of sinking our military's mission.
Even after Donald Trump overturned the policy, taxpayers were forced to make a huge investment in the Left's social petri dish, sinking well over $8 million into treatments, hormones, and surgeries for the handful of transgender-identifying troops who were grandfathered in. By 2019, the Defense Department announced that it had redirected funds from salaries, equipment, and trainings for 22,992 psychotherapy visits, 9,321 hormone prescriptions, and a whopping 161 surgeries (ranging from hysterectomies and breast augmentation to "male reproductive" construction). Surgeries alone racked up $2 million – an average of $12,422 a servicemember. And that was with the Trump ban in place! Imagine how much Americans will be spending when Biden opens the ranks to this all-expenses-paid gender nonsense for four full years!
FRC's Lt. General (Ret.) Jerry Boykin could only shake his head at the reversal. "This has everything to do with President Biden's LGBT agenda – and nothing to do with military readiness, which should always be the Pentagon's first consideration."
While America faces rising threats from around the world, it's obvious that Joe Biden is only interested in using our military to fight one war: the culture's.
>While America faces rising threats from around the world, it's obvious that Joe Biden is only interested in using our military to fight one war: the culture's.
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Prerequisites
Optional Pre-GRS Procedures
Surgical Procedures
Chest Masculinization
Phalloplasty / Metoidoplasty
Details on phalloplasty
Buttock Reduction
F2M Surgery Instructions
Phalloplasty FAQs
Non-Surgical Procedures & Services
Pre & Post Op Instructions
Price List
Female to Male Price List
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FACIAL SURGERY
Description Surgery Hospital/Anesthesia Total
Blepharoplasty (eyelids upper and lower) 6,500 2,500 2.0 hr 9,000
Blepharoplasty (upper or lower) 3,800 2,200 1.5 hr 6,000
Rhinoplasty 6,500 2,500 2.0 hr 9,000
Rhinoplasty w/Septoplasty 7,500 2,800 2.5 hr 10,300
Facelift (Rhytidoplasty) 10,500 4,000 4.5 hr 14,500
Mini Facelift 6,500 3,100 3.0 hr 9,600
Liposuction of neck 1,500 1,900 1.0 hr 2,400
Chin augmentation 3,500 1,900 1.0 hr 5,400
Cheek augmentation 3,500 1,900 1.5 hr 5,400
Forehead/Brow Lift w/ bony contouring 4,500 2,200 1.5 hr 6,700
Top (Breast) and Body Surgery
Description Surgery Hospital/Anesthesia Total
Subcutaneous mastectomy w/ minimal skin reduction & areolar reduction (periareolar incision) 5,000 2,800 2.5 hr 7,800
Subcutaneous mastectomy w/moderate skin reduction,
areolar reduction & elevation (lollipop incision) 6,000 2,800 * 2.5 hr 8,800
Subcutaneous mastectomy w/large skin reduction, areolar reduction & elevation (anchor incision or peri-areolar & submammary “double” incision) 7,500 3,400 * 3.5 hr 10,900
Liposuction 1,000-1,500/area varies w/size & # of areas varies
Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) 7,200 3,100 3.0 hr 10,300
Mini-Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) 4,500 2,500 2.0 hr 7,000
Bottom Surgery
Description Surgery Hospital/Anesthesia Total
Metoidioplasty (clitoral release) 4,200 2,200 1.5 hr 6,400
Groin Flap Phalloplasty 9,500 *
Abdominal Flap Phalloplasty 10,500 *
with transposition and incorporation of meta or clitoris add $1,500
Testicular implants (pair) add $1,500 *
Penile Implant – hydraulic add $7,200 *
- malleable fasciculated add 3,200 *
- flexible non-fasciculated add 1,000 *
Scrotal Construction from Labia add 3,500 *
Glansplasty 1,000 *
Sub-total vaginectomy 4,500 1.0 hr
if done with phallo or meta 3,500
Testicular implants in labia Iincludes implants) 2,500 1.0 hr
EXAMPLE:
Phalloplasty, scrotoplasty, testicular implants, glansplasty, transpositin of the clitoris $18,000
7 1/2 hr OR ( $3,250); 1 night in hospital ($1,300); anesthesia $2,350 $6,900
TOTAL $24,900
Additional hospital and/or anesthesia fees may apply
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Prerequisites
Frequently Asked Questions
Optional Pre-GRS Procedures
Surgical Procedures
Facial Feminization
Breast Augmentation
Buttock Enhancement or Reduction
Thyroid Cartilage Reduction
Vaginoplasty
Methodology
Dilation Instructions
Non-Surgical Procedures & Services
Pre-Op & Post-Op Instructions
Male to Female Price List
Male To Female Price List
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Facial Feminization Surgery
Description Surgery Hospital/Anesthesia Total
Blepharoplasty (eyelids upper and lower) $ 6,500 $2,500 2.0 hr $ 9.000
Blepharoplasty (upper or lower) 3,800 2,200 1.5 hr 6,000
Rhinoplasty 6,500 2,500 2.0 hr 9.000
Rhinoplasty w/Septoplasty 7,500 2,800 2.5 hr 10,300
Facelift (Rhytidoplasty) 10,500 4,000 4.5 hr 14,500
Mini Facelift 5,500 3,100 3.0 hr 8,600
Liposuction of neck 1,500 1,900 1.0 hr 3,400
Chin augmentation 3,500 1,900 1.0 hr 5,400
Cheek augmentation 4,500 2,200 1.5 hr 6,700
Forehead/brow lift with brow bone
reduction and hair line advance (burring) 5,500 2,500 2.0 hr 8,000
reduction and hair line advancing (bone set back) 6,500 2,500 2.0 hr 9,000
Thyroid cartilage reduction 3,500 1,900 1.0 hr 5,400
Upper lip shortening 4,500 1,900 1.0 hr 6,400
Top (Breast) and Body Surgery
Breast Augmentation $6,500 $2,500 2.0 hr $9,000
Liposuction 1,000-1,500/area varies w/ size & # of areas
Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) 7,200 3,100 3.0 hr 10,300
mini-Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) 4,500 2,200 1.5 hr 6,700
Buttock Augmentation (implants) 7,500 2,800 2.5 hr 10,300
Buttock Augmentation (fat transplant) 5,500 2,800 2.5 hr 8,300
Calf Augmentation (implants) 5,000 2,500 2.0 hr 7,500
Orchiectomy 4,500 2,200 1.5 hr 6,700
Bottom Surgery (GRS/SRS)
Vaginoplasty (one-stage with penile inversion, clitoroplasty, and labiaplasty) 16,800 4,600* 5.5 hr $25,600
*(Anesthesia $1,950; OR $2,650; 3 nights in hospital $3,900.)
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DISCOUNTS ON SURGICAL FEES FOR MULTIPLE PROCEDURES.
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