Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth doesn’t assume shade or gender issues within the army—except you’re transgender.
“Black, white, male, female, it doesn’t matter. We are going to be COLOR-BLIND and MERIT-BASED warfighters,” the previous Fox Information host stated in a speech at Fort Bragg on Thursday.
The assertion got here as a stark distinction to transgender army members going through the choice of leaving their positions or being pressured out of service by the Trump administration.
After all, Hegseth—a person who can’t even do his new job with no make-up studio—signed off on the army combing via service members’ private medical information to establish transgender individuals who haven’t chosen to return ahead about their id.
Earlier this month, Hegseth gave the all clear for the Pentagon to begin eradicating as many as 1,000 overtly transgender individuals.
“No More Trans @ DoD,” Hegseth bragged in a publish on X after the Supreme Court docket sided with President Donald Trump’s transgender army ban.
In a separate interview, reported by Related Press, Hegseth added, “No more pronouns. No more dudes in dresses. We’re done with that shit.”
Hegseth, who needed to promise to kick his alleged booze behavior to get his present job, has a knack for calling transgender individuals (and girls) unfit for army service. In line with him, they negatively impression the “lethality” of the job.
Then once more, this mirror appears to be reflecting proper again at him.
When it comes to “lethality,” Hegseth has managed to share categorised warfare plans in not one, however two group chats on third-party app Sign. The TV host-turned secretary of Protection has shared assault plans with the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, his private lawyer, his brother, and his spouse. Extra so, Hegseth can’t even hold his personal group completely satisfied. Staffers are working to the media to lift the alarm about what’s occurring in the dead of night—making Hegseth threaten polygraphs throughout the board.
However, hey, transgender persons are the issue.
