by Calvin Freiburger, LifeSite News:
The woke takeover of every corner of the federal government continues.
With issues such as his budget priorities and handling of international crises dominating headlines, President Joe Biden’s “woke” transformation of the United States military has continued largely below the radar, according to a recent report.
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Last month, the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) published an update on the Biden administration’s work to infuse the armed forces with left-wing gender ideology, via the most recent version of DoD Instruction 1300.28, a document on “Inservice Transition for Transgender Service Members.” The group says it contains “prime examples of woke-ism in the military, defined as policies that impose progressive ideology and take them to extremes with enforced compliance, even if it hurts the institution.”
First, the document changes the official working definitions of various terms to cater to LGBT dogma, including “transition” as a “period of time when individuals change from the gender role associated with their sex assigned at birth to a different gender role”; replacing “preferred gender” with “self-identified gender.”
“All personnel, including commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels, must comply with this ideology or suffer career penalties if they don’t,” CMR warns.
The document also requires the creation of a Service Central Coordination Cell (SCCC) “to provide multi-disciplinary (e.g., medical, legal, military personnel management) expert advice and assistance to commanders with regard to service by transgender Service members and gender transition in the military,” with “gender affirming” being the only real option for personnel suffering dysphoria.
Next, the document extends transgender policies to cadets in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and at Military Service Academies. While the exact implications are not yet known, CMR expects it to manifest in controversies involving opposite-sex cadets being housed together and forced to compete against one another, which “would not help to boost application rates at the military service academies, which declined in 2022.”
Additionally, the document provides for deeming a gender transition “complete” even if a recipient has not undergone full surgical transformation, thereby lowering the criteria needed to officially classify a male as a “female” or vice versa. “For facilities subject to regulation by the military, service members will use those berthing, bathroom, and shower facilities associated with their gender marker in DEERS” (the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System), it says.
Further, it “does not mention or call for protection of rights of religious liberty for chaplains and people of faith who object to transgender ideology on moral grounds,” according to CMR. “Nor does the directive provide any options for doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel who do not want to participate in transgender treatments that violate personal convictions or medical ethics.”
“Indeed, all commanders will be held accountable if anyone in their chain of command uses the ‘wrong’ pronouns or makes any statement that might be construed as ‘bias against transgender individuals,’” CMR adds. “Why should a tank company commander at Fort Hood have to concentrate on transgender pronoun etiquette instead of training his company to find, fight, and destroy an enemy force?”
The revised DoDI 1300.28 permits cross-dressing and the use of opposite-sex showers and restrooms on military bases, under the guise of “real life experience,” creating “endless” possibilities for “interpersonal tension and disruption.”
Notably, the document does allow soldiers procedures to “return to their previous gender” if it is determined that a transition “has not resolved the gender dysphoria.” While the change offers a rare acknowledgment of a reality that LGBT activists typically ignore, CMR suggests that it also opens the door to spending large sums of money to correct procedures that should never have been offered in the first place, and potentially a “bonanza for practitioners of highly questionable medical procedures once the military medical establishment approves their work.”
