April 12, 2019: As of Today, Most Transgenders Serving in the U.S. Military Will Be Banned - And Other Ways to Screw Those Who Serve

 

4/12/19: As of today, most transgender individuals are banned from serving in the military, unless they agree to serve in their “birth gender.” 

As for those already serving – who may number in the thousands – Axios explains:

 

After April 12, no one diagnosed with gender dysphoria who is taking hormones or has transitioned to another gender will be allowed to enlist…and those currently serving can be discharged for doing so.

 

Military personnel will be given “a chance to change their decision [emphasis added]” or given a chance to agree to serve in their birth gender, before being discharged.

 

Realizing that the U.S. military will be losing hundreds if not thousands of active duty servicemen and women, members of the Trump family rush down, as they always have, and enlist... 

Ha, ha! Of course not! Service to country is for suckers.

 

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YOU MIGHT BE one of those who believes a long, tall border wall would solve a lot of problems for this country; but no complex issue is ever so simple. Take the recent case of Jose Arturo Gonzalez Carranza. 

He first snuck into the U.S., when he was fourteen and moved to Phoenix, Arizona with an uncle. There he found work with a carpeting company. He met his future wife, Barbara Vieyra, at a nightclub for teens. They eventually moved in together, had a daughter, and married. Ms. Viera joined the Army to help support the family. She served with a military police unit in Korea and was later deployed to Kunar Province, Afghanistan. There, during an attack by Taliban forces on her unit, she was killed in action, age 22. 

Her husband learned of her death on his own 22^nd birthday, in 2010. His wife’s parents helped him raise his daughter, Evelyn, but in January 2019, he was grabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. He was deported to Mexico, a country he had not seen in sixteen years. 

And, somehow, this was supposed to make America safer, or a better place for his daughter, now 12, to live? 

Vieyra and their daughter.

The news media began to spread the story, Mr. Gonzalez Carranza managed to get a good lawyer, and this week he was allowed to return to the U.S. 

Ezequiel Hernandez, his lawyer, said his client was finally allowed back into the United States on Monday after a government lawyer notified him that Mr. Gonzalez Carranza should go to the legal port of entry in Nogales, Mexico, within an hour. Mr. Hernandez said he was not certain why immigration authorities reversed their decision, but believed that media reports about the deportation may have contributed to the decision.

 

On Tuesday, a day after returning to Arizona, Mr. Gonzalez Carranza said he had still not seen his daughter, who was with her grandparents, but was looking forward to seeing her.

 

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Mr. Hernandez said he planned to argue that his client should be granted permanent legal status in the United States because of the extreme hardship that his daughter would face, compounded by the loss of her mother, if her father were to be deported.

 

You could certainly argue that his wife, who had given her life to serve this country, had earned that, at least.

BLOGGER’S NOTE (6/24/21): The U.S. Army officially reverses the Trump administration policy and rules that transgender individuals can serve openly, according to their gender identity. 

The Pentagon began to reverse Trump policies in March 2021. 

Department of Defense data, for example, showed that between 2015 and 2017, 393 of 994 transgender military personnel deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, proving that unlike the “Fighting Trumps,” their patriotism was more than just words spilling from lips.