The Pentagon is planning to let soldiers serve who are so-called "transgendered."

The Pentagon is opening the door for transgender troops to serve in the military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Monday, continuing a wave of expansion in opportunity under President Barack Obama.

And there likely won’t be much opposition on Capitol Hill, with Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) saying he has no major objections.

Of course!  Why would John McCain or any Republican object to that?

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) also raised the readiness issue. “It’s going to be up to [the military] to say whether this is something they can accommodate and make sure it doesn’t interfere with our ability to defend the nation,” she said.

Ayotte passes the ball...and Obama scores!

That means men who call themselves women will dress in a skirt with heels.

How confusing and disruptive for our troops will it be if the one on the left is a guy and the one on the right is a woman?

This is, or was, until recently, classified as a mental illness.  Despite what the political class says, it is still clearly a mental illness, because it is a state of mind where people are unhappy with their own bodies and honestly believe that they are of the other gender.  Since the beginning of time, people have been unhappy about different parts or attributes of their own bodies.  When carried to an extreme, it's a mental illness.  But now, in 2015, it's considered a badge of courage.

Can you imagine the chaos when not just soldiers, but officers leading troops suffer from gender dysphoria?

One out of every 3 transgenders, even after undergoing a surgical gender change, will die from suicide. Gender surgery is no help in preventing or reducing transgender suicide deaths. More than 40% of transgenders will attempt suicide and 30% will not survive the attempts and die.

From the Transgender Task Force’s own studies in the United States, to the UK’s extensive 50 years of research, along with a 30 year study of all transgenders in Sweden, we amass a wealth of evidence that changing genders all too often ends in suicide. I have reviewed a large cross section of studies and they have helped me discover that many transgenders suffer from depressive disorders.

Soldiers deal with life-and-death situations constantly.  A distraction or mental quirk can be fatal to an officer and his men.

What do you think will happen to unit cohesion when a platoon is ordered to serve a captain who wears a skirt and has hairy legs and a deep voice?  What will happen when a brigade commander is so caught up in his own depressive thoughts that he snaps during an attack?  Do we really want a soldier prone to depressive and suicidal thoughts on the trigger of our most powerful weapons, including nuclear weapons?

And are Republicans so cowed that they cannot find a voice to speak out, even about this?

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