Army exempts trans service members from
physical fitness standards
Hot Air,
by
David Strom
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/6/2023 5:16:30 PM
Diversity is our strength. Except, apparently, the more diversity the military seeks, the less strength it requires.
That seems to be the lesson of the Army’s physical fitness standards, which do not apply to people who are getting “gender-affirming” care. One of the shibboleths of the Left is the claim that increasing the acceptance of “gender-diverse” individuals into the military merely extends the same opportunities to transgender folks as those afforded to people who identify with their natal sex (man, finding the right words is impossible when discussing these issues!).
Combine this idea with the claim that “diversity is our strength,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 7/6/2023 5:21:54 PM (No. 1507159)
Honestly, this is treason.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MissNan 7/6/2023 5:34:42 PM (No. 1507163)
Is anybody else as sick to death as I am hearing about transgender folks?
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Their physical fitness test consists of a timed run of 3 laps around General Milley or as he is affectionately called at the Pentagon “The Donut King”.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
edgar 7/6/2023 5:38:35 PM (No. 1507168)
Another admission of their unfitness for the US armed services. Which is still minute compared to their mental unfitness.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catfur27 7/6/2023 5:43:59 PM (No. 1507171)
...libs/dems have turned the Best Military in the History of the Planet into a social experiment lab....sickening
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Why would they exempt transgenders?? Women weren't exempt from the men's standards for a long time. I don't know what they are now, but several years ago when my daughter was in the Army, she was held to the same standards as men. If you are going to be trans - you should be held to the same standards because you are claiming to be one or the other .
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono 7/6/2023 5:54:42 PM (No. 1507179)
The military is not a video game competition. Physical condition is absolutely relevant. This policy change should -- by itself -- be enough to end, immediately, the policy that permits "trans" members in our military. (We should end the entire "gender ideology" madness; but at the very least get that crap out of the military.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/6/2023 6:02:06 PM (No. 1507189)
How do you say 'laughing our asses off' in Chinese and Russian?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 7/6/2023 6:14:42 PM (No. 1507197)
I worry about how our armed forces will be able to perform with all the 'diversity' infiltrating the ranks. The wars in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan came about pretty suddenly in lands where LGBTQIAXYZ++ troops would be in great peril. That will undermine our unit cohesion.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/6/2023 6:42:17 PM (No. 1507209)
It will be interesting to see the reaction of the troops when they start assigning so-called transgenders who do not have to meet physical fitness standards as infantry and ranger battalion and company commanders? You would think that holding soldiers to different physical fitness standards depending upon where they turn up in the diverse minority categories of Democrat identity politics would be a form of workplace discrimination?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
paral04 7/6/2023 6:51:58 PM (No. 1507218)
Yeah, don't put them through Basic Training and send them to the "Russian Front" if we have any issues. That will help them survive.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/6/2023 6:53:28 PM (No. 1507219)
How do you spell fragging?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/6/2023 7:01:30 PM (No. 1507227)
A positive development. Comes the revolution, this is what we will be fighting.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 7/6/2023 7:30:58 PM (No. 1507240)
Blanket parties for the trannies, about three a week might convince them to get out.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Catherine 7/6/2023 7:43:55 PM (No. 1507249)
Well it is hard to run in heels and carrying a weapon will get in the way of carrying a purse. But wait til they realize real bullets will be fired at them and, oh my, they might get killed. Might change the minds of some of them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
rochow 7/6/2023 8:19:40 PM (No. 1507257)
Should be perfect when in battle. 'Excuse me, could you hold my gun, I just broke a nail and need to fix it. Why are these things so heavy anyway? And so bulky. Creases my uniform.' Who wants to volunteer for this army that jerk Austin is putting together??
Spot on #2.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
padiva 7/6/2023 8:22:16 PM (No. 1507258)
Someone has to be the target. /s
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
coldoc 7/6/2023 8:27:34 PM (No. 1507262)
If the pentagon thinks they have recruitment problem now just wait.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 7/6/2023 8:30:27 PM (No. 1507266)
With apologies to those who signed up to serve as men and women, we no longer have a military.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chumley 7/6/2023 9:16:51 PM (No. 1507282)
What a chump I was. I busted tail for 20 years in attempts to meet their arbitrary physical fitness standards. I was almost thrown out twice for being fat. Nobody looked at duty performance, they just looked at if I was pretty enough for them.
Now I know all I had to do was pretend to be a really ugly chick. They'd have left me alone, and as an added bonus I could have used the girls locker rooms and showers. I always do everything the hard way.
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Our enemies--- mortal enemies--- Red China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Islamofascists, will be interested in this.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
volksford 7/6/2023 9:42:53 PM (No. 1507302)
Arm up folks...you are on your own.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/6/2023 10:53:58 PM (No. 1507341)
It took the military decades to exempt actual women from the standards required for male soldiers. Why are trannies weaker than women? In case this is not clear, the Army wants any trannie they can get to boost their woke score, blind, crippled or crazy. I'm glad I served before Obama came along.
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