transgender Navy SEAL: 'Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy'
A retired Navy SEAL Team 6 hero who is transgender had a message for President Donald Trump after he announced the US military would bar transgender people from serving.
"Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy," Kristin Beck, a 20-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, told Business Insider on Wednesday. "Transgender doesn't matter. Do your service."
Beck said Trump's abrupt change in policy could negatively affect many currently or wanting to serve in the military. The RAND Corporation estimated in 2016 that there were between 1,320 and 6,630 transgender people serving. Many of them just want to serve their country like everyone else, Beck said.
"Being transgender doesn't affect anyone else," Beck said. "We are liberty's light. If you can't defend that for everyone that's an American citizen, that's not right."
http://www.businessinsider.com/kristin-beck-trump-transgender-ban-2017-7
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Not that we didn't have enough of that to begin with, mind you. This will embolden more people to attack, thinking they're 'on Gods side'.
I don't agree with the phrasing of Kristen's statement; while it displays excellent heart, the MESSAGE will be weaponized against us by pushing the 'See, trans people aren't REALLY women, no woman is that violent!' rhetoric they ALWAYS use. At the same time, I totally get her conviction and share it. It's very frustrating. 
They say "See, trans people aren't REALLY women, no woman is that violent!", and then blame Hillary for apparently wanting WW3 in their next sentence.
Fuck them. Kristin's message is wonderful and not violent IMO. 
Trump's Only Coherent Ideology Is Making You Mad
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmvd8y/trumps-only-coherent-ideology-is-making-you-mad
"These aren't dog whistles but open appeals to conservatives who aren't as ideological as much as they're angry—angry at immigrants for taking the jobs, angry at phone menus that ask them to press 1 for English, angry that they have to think about whether someone is a Christian or not, or whether they're hurting someone's feelings by using the wrong pronoun. Maybe Trump will make all of that better. Or maybe he'll just infuriate liberals, which is the next best thing.
Or, as Jane Coaston put it in a recent op-ed for BuzzFeed, "The policy conversations and conflicts and basic premises that once governed conservatism—or at least appeared to—have been largely replaced by a set of principles built on the rock-solid foundation of irritating liberals." GOP policies can do much more than merely annoy liberals—ask any trans soldier—but knee-jerk reactions against social progress is what defines conservatism today. Maybe in the past conservatives used the Bible or some nod to tradition to defend their views. But in the age of Trump, they can skip a few steps and go right to hating whatever liberals say.
In a column on Townhall headlined "We Must Elect Senator Kid Rock," conservative Kurt Schlichter wrote, "We're past voting for the ideology. Now we're ready to vote for the id." These two sentences, quoted by Coaston, better explain the rise of Trump, and the reasoning behind the majority of his political decisions, better than almost anything you'll read. Trump has succeeded by playing into broad cultural fears, never mind that his policies are hurting people, like trans folks in the military or undocumented immigrants, who don't have the power to defend themselves."
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