President Trump's July 26 LGBTQ directives signaled his intention to ban the politicized transgender production from the theater of war. LGBTQ is a political program why?  Central to the concept of "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning" in the military is the idea of a group whose members have chosen to identify not as Private X or Private Z, but as a party to a political fraternity that promises and delivers an aggressive, noisy sexual identity politics. Evangelizing for the cause is implicit in the introduction of this political production into the military.  Ditto payment for drastic elective surgical procedures and the attendant hormonal maintenance. In other words, LGBTQ in the military isn't about enhancing a fighting force; it's about introducing another state-driven reformation program.  Egalitarian access here aims, inadvertently (as always), to grow an arm of government and, at the same time,...(Read Full Post)