Transgender veteran: Trump’s removing transgendered troops is ‘reckless and dangerous’
Alleria Stanley, a transgendered woman, penned an opinion article for The Guardian. He took aim at President Donald Trump’s order to have transgendered service members removed from the military. Stanley countered the reasons used for removing transgendered service members from the ranks. He argued that transgenders were twice as likely than the general population to serve. Stanley also argued that this move was “reckless and counterproductive” to military readiness.
From The Guardian:
The Trump administration is wrong about transgender service members. The Pentagon memo declares that being transgender is “incompatible with the high mental and physical standards necessary for military service”. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
There are at least 15,000 transgender individuals in the military, and they serve everywhere. They are pilots, submariners, and infantry; they are in command positions; they are trusted in the highest-skilled military jobs and the riskiest; they hold top secret clearances (as I did). The cumulative loss of institutional and career knowledge across the spectrum that will come from this decision is devastating, as is the personal loss to these service members and their families.
This new order is reckless and counter-productive to military preparedness. When we face threats worldwide, we need a strong and resilient military. We don’t need to leave 15,000 skilled positions vacant.
Furthermore, what precedent does this set? We already know that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, does not believe women should serve in combat. Many people don’t realize that equal African American military service is not codified by law — only by President Truman’s Executive Order #9981. This means it can be reversed at any time. I use this as an example because when policies are allowed to ping-pong between executive orders instead of law, it puts people’s lives at risk.
I was fortunate to have found an online arts organization during my lowest moment in Missouri. Community Building Art offers creative writing and art workshops for female and nonbinary veterans. Participating in a community like this saved my life and has proven to reduce suicidality among participants.
But I worry now for all those suddenly forced out of the careers and communities they’ve known. We should support their service to our nation, and should they be dismissed, we must offer them safe spaces. Yet, instead of focusing on crises like veteran suicide, the administration is endangering veterans’ care. We will need the private sector to support service members and veterans in this dangerous time.
Additional Reading:
Stanley, A. (2025, March 11). I’m a transgender veteran. Trump’s military order is reckless and dangerous. The Guardian; Opinion. Link.
Category: Editorial, Op-Ed, Veterans in the news
15,000? That guy is high.
What command position is he talking about?
“Alleria Stanley, a transgendered woman…” in other words an man with severe emotional and/or mental issues believing he change his body. I can tell everybody I’m the last King of Ireland, but that doesn’t make it so.
I’ve seen that number tossed around, but NEVER a source of that number. If you worked in Theater, you’d think the whole world was gay but its not representative of the workforce. That’s why that 15K number is fiction.
exactly
Those #s come from the same place as its butt plug.
DOD says 4240 total. More than I would expect but we live in weird times.
Damned butt sniffers anyway.
Why would a mental defective’s letter to The Guardian have any relevance to either with The Guardian or the Army?
At least he’s not writing graffiti on the walls of the men’s room.
Napolean stood at the urinal and pulled his bonaparte
Winning!
Hope that Podesta-Molesta is on that list.
Counterpoint: it’s not reckless nor dangerous. They’re “twice as likely to serve” only to qualify to dickectomies.
Plus, many of the want a surgeon to construct a mangina for them after the loppadickoffomy, at taxpayer expense. Who cares how many mentally ill people think they are entitled to serve in our military? Should we enlist schizophrenics? Moreover, they are medically disqualified as well and could never be deployable.
The “Manginas” have a propensity to heal and close. So they say… and require frequent and painful “refurbishment”.
There are many on this site who enjoy counterpoint and rhetoric.
Or, as Rush was fond of saying – addadictomies. ;^)
Sounds bout right: disturbed parents creating disturbed kids
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/01/military-parents-transgender-lgbtq-children/9672832002/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p
Itsa Dependapotamus!
The Guardian is a cryptocommie/prog propaganda media op. Every thing they put out is left wing. I would like to see where the writer gets his stats; I suspect they are simply made up.
Transgender troops. Can they kill spiders? Identify sounds in the middle of the night without waking anybody else to go investigate? Can (s)he make a sandwich?
These are all important questions.
I’m going to ask this person the same questions I ask Commissar. Where is the proof? Can you cite references, credible references? Are you now serving or have you ever served in the United States military? Where did you gain your knowledge of military operations? Until those questions are answered, the opinions stated by Alleria Stanley are nothing more than opinion. Unsubstantiated, likely lies and totally fraudulent.
If and when a SM is/becomes non-deployable, that SM should be processed for separation per Para 1-49 AR 635-200.
See. there are rules and rules must be enforced.
1) There’s nowhere near 15k trans military. (I recently saw an article with actual analysis but can’t recall the number.)
2) Even if there was 15k: I don’t care what billet they are sitting in, putting them all out would be an immediate gain in readiness, good order, and discipline—even if they weren’t replaced.
Approximately 8,000 servicemembers were kicked out for refusing the COVID shot. I don’t remember any talk of losing them being reckless and counter-productive to military preparedness.
Trump and Pete are both working on rectifying that situation. Whether they return to active duty, or not, they deserve to be compensated.
Lord dark VADER SIGNED THAT SHIT. He needs his security clearance pulled and a couple of stars pulled too. He saw dementia joes decline
And said shit. Fuckin DEI hire.
15,000?
F@cking horsesh1t.
Twice as likely to serve compared to the general population?
Also horsesh1t.
Stanley can f@ck off.
More fornicating bull excrement.
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Sudden arrest? Are people upset they weren’t given advanced warning of their arrest?
Well, we are talking about CHICOMS, and there is a new SECDEF in town.
Wait…what?!? We just had an article today about not being able to fill slots and now we got an article telling us how many are trying to serve but can’t? Damn…I’m confused…but not as confused as this idjit.
Yep, looks and smells like another rabbit-fucked pile of liberal chihuahua shit to me.
I’m just curious if they use the male or female standards on the PT test.
Whatever gets they/ them through.
Lars be like.
Never post that again. I beg of you.
Concur.
WHERE’S THE BLEACH?!!!?
Well, I can see his…um…her…um…it’s point. Without trannys in the army what would become of their Drag Shows?
Next we’ll hear liberal moonbats say that removing trans critters will “have a negative impact on diversity” or some shit like that!
Isn’t a “negative impact on diversity” a positive?
If I’m understanding this right, if you’re trans, whether or not the plumbings been remodeled, aren’t you undeployable? How is that ‘strong and resilient’?
Last I knew, people with mental illnesses are not world wide qualified and so should be discharged.