Detransitioning the US Military

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The delusion that one can “transition” to another gender has been a scourge on public sanity and a bitch-slap in the face of reality for what seems like forever. But it hasn’t been very long at all.

Transgenderism is based on the flawed idea that one can cleanly sever “sex” (a biological fact) from “gender” (a construct rooted in that biological fact) and toss it in the wastebasket like an unwanted appendage.

As silly as it is, the misconception that you were born with the wrong genitalia has gained the tyrannical force of unquestionable social truth. This never happened with “transracialism,” which is still rightly mocked, and the much lesser known “transableism,” where those afflicted feel tortured by having a limb that their brain tells them shouldn’t be there, so they wind up craving amputation to become their “real selves.”

When this whole rotten transgender charade started snowballing about 13 years ago and public pressure forced people to deny chromosomal reality, I referred to the phenomenon as “The Emperor’s New Body.” Saying “that’s a woman” or “that’s a man” doesn’t make it so, especially if you’re only saying it to cave to public pressure and avoid being fired or getting your eyeballs stabbed out by someone who’s gone hormonally haywire. The transgender delusion has been used as a form of mental hazing, of forcing people to bend his or her knee to what Theodore Dalrymple once referred to as “an obvious lie” in the service of building “a society of emasculated liars,” and it has swept through public discourse with a terrifying quickness.

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It seems as if I blinked one day around 2011 and suddenly all of our national institutions—the press, academia, government, and the corporate world—flipped the script and declared that anyone who questioned the warped idea that someone can board a chaperoned ferry in the gender-identity underworld and cross the River Sex was the reality-denying pervert, rather than the weirdo in the imaginary riverboat.

Although it will never be as heated as the issue of transgender children, the subject of trannies in the military became a hot topic again this week—specifically, the idea of shoving them all out of the US Armed Forces.

The fact that this is even an issue would have been inconceivable back in those golden years when men would sometimes dress as women to avoid military service. Back then, a man could be tagged as “mentally unfit for service” and get a Section 8 discharge for, among other things, wearing women’s clothes. The most famous pop-culture expression of this was Corporal Max Klinger in the TV sitcom M*A*S*H. Klinger tried (and failed) to get discharged based on the notion that any man who wore women’s clothes was crazy.

As recently as July 2012, toward the end of Obama’s first term, the Department of Defense still upheld a prior rule that potential military enlistees, appointees, and inductees should not have “[c]urrent or history of psychosexual conditions, including but not limited to transsexualism, exhibitionism, transvestism, voyeurism, and other paraphilias.”

Despite the ban, a redhaired, freckle-faced biological male who’d been enlisted in the Army since 1993 but had left for the Reserves in 2012 to have gender-reassignment surgery was ordered back to active duty in 2013. Say “hello, dear” to Captain Sage Fox. “Sage” became the first “openly transgender person serving in the military,” but it lasted only two weeks until he was placed on inactive reserve.

In March 2015, yet again bucking the ban, a doctor in the Army Medical Corps gave himself a name change and had a sex change, reemerging as Major Jamie Lee Henry, snagging the dubious honor of becoming “the first active-duty service member to have a name change and gender change within the United States Armed Forces.”

In June of 2016, toward the end of Obama’s second term, the Department of Defense announced that “Transgender service members in the U.S. military can now openly serve their country without fear of retribution.”

But in April of 2019, the Trump Administration banned new applicants who’d received surgical sex changes from enlisting, as well as anyone who’d been diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” if they hadn’t demonstrated three years of “stability.” Members already in the military could continue to serve, but only under their “gender assigned at birth,” i.e., their real sex. Critics blasted the policy as the trans version of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding gays in the military that had lasted from 1994-2011.

Then, only five days after his inauguration in January 2021, Joe Biden impudently overturned Trump’s ban, enabling such grotesqueries as the man born as Richard Levine, who’d changed his name to Dr. Rachel Levine, to openly and unashamedly rise to the level of a four-star admiral in the US Navy.

Now come murmurs that Trump, full of vim and vigor after his reelection, is promising to boot all trannies out of the military.

“Donald Trump ‘to kick transgender troops out of US military,’” blared Monday’s headline in The Times:

Donald Trump is planning an executive order that would lead to the removal of all transgender members of the US military, defence sources say.

The order could come on his first day back in the White House, January 20. There are believed to be about 15,000 active service personnel who are transgender. They would be medically discharged, which would determine that they were unfit to serve.

If those unnamed “defence sources” are correct, this would be a huge expansion from Trump’s 2019 policy, which forbade new transgender enlistees but allowed the gender-psychotic rainbow salamanders who had already slithered into the military to keep their jobs so long as they didn’t deny their biological sex.

I asked an unambiguously male former airman I know for his opinion on Trump’s rumored tranny purge:

This, combined with using the military for mass deportations, is very important because it will be our equivalent of a litmus test for a purge like COVID was for the left. You could not imagine the open insubordination, attitude, and resentment even in 2017 when I got out.

People were openly mocking or insulting Trump. Like, joking about him being blown up and his orange toupee being the only thing left.

The base newspaper did a whole thing fawning over this trans creature while of course passing over the nameless maintainers who are mostly white men fixing the planes in zero-degree weather with 30 MPH winds on the flight line.

Something like one-third of trans are veterans because they go in just to get their procedures for free while being allowed to do whatever. If Trump is smart and strong, he will offer discharges to anyone who wants to leave over this or the deportations just to purge them and send them on their merry way to the GI Bill, which is probably the only reason they signed up anyways. And set up a hotline for guys to report on insubordination, especially in the brass, where it will be an epidemic.

It all sounds good to me.

According to Monday’s article in The Times, though, this is only a rumored purge. At the article’s end, it trots out Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s newly appointed White House Press Secretary, to confirm that the rumor is unconfirmed:

These unnamed sources are speculating and have no idea what they are actually talking about. No decisions on this issue have been made. No policy should ever be deemed official unless it comes directly from President Trump or his authorized spokespeople.

Back on July 26, 2017, the idea of such a purge came not from unnamed “defence forces,” but directly from then-president Trump when he tweeted:

After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military…. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail…. Thank you.

They can’t serve “in any capacity.” Sounds like a full-blown purge. For whatever reason, Trump didn’t deliver on his promise the first time around. Let’s hope it happens.

I support a thorough detransitioning of the US Armed Forces. It’d be one small step for sanity, one giant leap for unambiguous mankind.