Jake Tapper THREAD: 1/ Here's a RAND study on open transgender individuals serving in military

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Look at #9. very good thread


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1/ Here's a RAND study on open transgender individuals serving in military http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB9900/RB9909/RAND_RB9909.pdf …

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2/ Note that RAND estimates around 4K transgender Americans already serve in military and reserves
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3/ Last month Secretary Mattis said Pentagon needed more time to study issue of transgender recruits

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4/ June 19: Joint Chiefs chair Marine Gen. Dunford said there is no issue with the transgender Americans currently serving. Q is recruits.
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Jake Tapper?Verified account @jaketapper 1h1 hour ago

5/ POTUS this morning says no transgender Americans can serve, period.

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6/ Days ago House blocked ban on Pentagon paying for gender reassignment surgery and other medical services

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7/ Here's the Mattis memo I referred to a few tweets back --

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Jake Tapper?Verified account @jaketapper 57m57 minutes ago

8/ POTUS tweets suggest he would kick 4K Americans out of the military and Reserves because they're transgender.
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Jake Tapper Retweeted Jonathan Swan

9/ please see the reasoning behind this announcement per source talking to @jonathanvswan

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Whow. Trump is doing this for Political reasons!!

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Just spoke to a Trump administration official about the transgender military decision. Here's what they said...

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Jake Tapper Retweeted Donald J. Trump

10/ POTUS campaigned as someone who would generally stand up for the LGBTQ community.

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Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.




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Jake Tapper?Verified account @jaketapper 52m52 minutes ago

11/ -fin-

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Ted Le Moine? @frogman888 1h1 hour ago

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As if Scientific studies are something Trump would consider.

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1. Idiotic

I guess he figures his economic policies will result in plenty of desperate young cis-gendered people to provide cannon fodder.

In my book, anybody willing to put their life on the line for the Country should be allowed to serve.

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3. agree Also see my post just below this...

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2. #6 JUST 6 DAYS AGO THE REPUBLICAN* controlled House BANNED transgender discrimination

in the military. Trump did this out of the blue. As many are saying--the military is blindsighted by trumps tweeps today!


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6/ Days ago House blocked ban on Pentagon paying for gender reassignment surgery and other medical serviceshttp://www.cnn.com/2017/07/13/politics/house-defeats-bid-block-pentagon-transgender-surgeries/index.html …


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The amendment failed in a 209-214 vote, with 24 Republicans voting against it
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has delayed a decision on allowing transgender recruits to join the military

(CNN)The House on Thursday defeated a proposal that would have prevented the Pentagon from funding gender reassignment surgeries for service members.


The amendment failed in a 209-214 vote, with 24 Republicans voting against it.


The provision from Rep. Vicky Hartzler was an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to block the military from paying for gender reassignment surgery or hormone therapy for both service members and their families.

In 2016, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter ended the ban on transgender people being able to serve openly in the military.
Carter put in place a process to occur in stages, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was facing a July 1 deadline on whether to allow new recruits who were transgender.
At the urging of the military service leaders, Mattis announced that he was delaying that decision for six months to study the issue further.....................

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