{"id":46355,"date":"2021-02-02T22:16:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46355"},"modified":"2021-02-02T22:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:17:30","slug":"transgender-patriots-are-welcomed-back-into-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46355","title":{"rendered":"Transgender patriots welcomed back into uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=sexchange%20%23transgender%20%23POTUS%20%40JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trans-military-ban-1920x1080-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46356\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trans-military-ban-1920x1080-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trans-military-ban-1920x1080-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trans-military-ban-1920x1080-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trans-military-ban-1920x1080-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trans-military-ban-1920x1080-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trans-military-ban-1920x1080-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Biden&#8217;s stash of pens is getting a workout as he enters the Oval Office and begins righting some of the decisions delivered by his immediate predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Biden signed an executive order that restores transgender Americans&#8217; right to serve in the military. Donald Trump nixed that notion with an earlier executive order.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has realized what we all know, which is that patriotism lives in the hearts of all Americans regardless of their sexual orientation of gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad to see the president welcome back those who have changed their gender but still want to defend the nation against its enemies and protect our national security.<\/p>\n<p>My own military service occurred long ago, from 1968 to 1970. For the life of me I have no memory of encountering anyone back then during my Army service who were born as someone other than who they were when we served. Then again, such gender-change medical procedures weren&#8217;t as <em>refined<\/em> as they have become in the decades since.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever, my point is that gender identity shouldn&#8217;t be an issue for anyone other than the individual who has sought to change his or her gender.<\/p>\n<p>Transgender patriots are every bit as qualified to serve their country in uniform as anyone else.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=sexchange%20%23transgender%20%23POTUS%20%40JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com President Biden&#8217;s stash of pens is getting a workout as he enters the Oval Office and begins righting some of the decisions delivered by his immediate predecessor. Biden signed an executive order that restores transgender Americans&#8217; right to serve in the military. Donald Trump nixed that notion with an earlier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transgender patriots welcomed back into uniform<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2505,9610,7300],"class_list":["post-46355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-transgender-soldiers","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46358,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46355\/revisions\/46358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}