Trans Service Members Exempt From Deployments, PT Standards, Biden DOD Memo Reveals

As lawmakers fought to keep transgender reassignment surgery from being funded by the Pentagon, questions were being asked about why this even matters. First of all, I can tell you that the Pentagon doesn’t fund fertility treatment to help you grow your family, but they’re sure gung-ho about funding abortions and transgender surgeries. I sense a pattern… But beyond that, a reporter asked an important question– “Can you elaborate a little bit on how transgender reassignment surgery might influence battle readiness?” What followed was three minutes touching on numerous issues that deserve more like 3 hours of explanation.

Transgender service members take funding allocated for the Exceptional Family Members Program which helps military family members with long-term health issues (like genetic disorders, autism, or various physical deformities, for example), and that’s infuriating but not really the “battle readiness” issue. Fundamentally, trans service members are nondeployable due to what is basically a self-imposed long-term health issue. The transition process is lengthy, during which you are nondeployable due to the unavailability of the gender transition-related medical and psychological services during deployments. The military can’t send you someplace that does not offer the psychological or medical services you require for an ongoing medical issue. So during the entire transition process, a service member cannot be sent on a deployment because that would be denying them access to what their personnel file deems necessary medical care.

Then after the transition surgery, there is ongoing psychological and medical care, whether it’s dealing with the surgery wounds which often do not heal properly, longterm hormone therapies, or related psychological services. These are not just post-op care issues, but generally end up being a longterm reality. Again, because they are deemed necessary for an ongoing medical issue, the service member isn’t deployable if those services aren’t available where they might be deployed, which they won’t be. Thus, these service members may end up being nondeployable for years or even the remainder of their career.

In the meantime, as they are exempt from deployments, someone else has to take those deployments instead. And it’s not just for deployments. It’s for a lot of military requirements, standards, and expectations including physical fitness standards. While the standards have dropped to almost nothing in the name of equity and whatnot, there is still sort of a physical fitness standard in the military. And they’re exempt from that, too. No need to maintain a physical standard of “battle readiness” when you’ll never be be deployed anyway, I guess.

We like to joke in the military that there’s a waiver or exemption for everything, it’s really just about whether you can get it. The obvious exemption to this exemption joke is the Covid “vaccine,” for which no one could get an exemption. The military would apparently rather have an army of nondeployable transgender service members than a few healthy but unvaccinated critical thinkers in their ranks.

And while all this is essentially common knowledge within the military, you might be asking for some tangible proof that this is how it really works. And here it is. In a Biden DOD memo titled “Care of service members who identify as transgender,” we learn about all the special considerations being given to transgender service members, who appear to be exempt from basically everything, simply as a general rule.

Of particular interest to me are some of the “care” services apparently being funded for trans service members, including:

• laser hair removal
• voice feminization surgery
• facial contouring
• body contouring
• breast/chest surgery

Mind you, elective surgeries and procedures like these are not funded for service members or their dependents, except maybe if you got breast cancer and needed a double mastectomy and could get them to cover some kind of reconstruction along with it. The government makes you jump through every hoop just to be approved to get medically necessary surgery. My own family has suffered very real physical damage as a result of government insurance being almost intentionally difficult and unreasonable about what they authorize. I had to fight tooth and nail to get a necessary and time-sensitive surgery to drill into my skull to remove chunks of infected bone before the infection ate through my skull into my brain while I was in the hospital for weeks. But sure, go ahead and get your laser hair removal.

I have to ask, what’s the point in having soldiers who can’t meet standards and can’t be depended on to fight? Soldiers who can’t be used as soldiers. “Battle readiness” was the justification for forcing the Covid “vaccine” on all service members. They claimed service members would lower “battle readiness” if they were getting Covid when they could have gotten the “vaccine” and stayed healthy and “battle ready,” so everyone just had to get it so everyone was “battle ready.” But that’s not how it worked, was it? And now, all of a sudden, “battle readiness” doesn’t matter quite so much and they’re happy to have the taxpayers pay for service members to intentionally and permanently remove themselves from “battle readiness.”

Mind you, I think the military has a larger problem with service members not meeting standards and expectations, instead living from one waiver to the next. It’s not fair to those who do maintain the standards and expectations. People get hurt, I get it. But it’s a system that’s being abused and is lowering the quality of our fighting force. Bottom line is, it’s a real issue that can’t be ignored simply because it isn’t politically correct to talk about.