Thread by @squidlord

It's amazing what you see if you just recognize a little #history.

#transgenderism #trans #military #Patton 1/23

March 15th, 2022: Army Gender Identity and Gender Expression Training Made Mandatory

veteranlife.com/military-news/… 2/23

> Gender is the way we socialize biological sex. The way you present, act, and speak can all be tied to your gender identity, but it doesn’t necessarily have to have anything to do with your reproductive anatomy. 3/23

> If you are someone who socially displays the dichotomous characteristics of a person with your reproductive anatomy, then you would be considered cisgendered. 4/23

June 5th, 1944: General Patton to the troops in England before D-Day

5ad.org/Patton_speech.… 5/23

> We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cock suckers by the bushel-fucking-basket. War is a bloody, killing business. 6/23

> You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. 7/23

> When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was your best friend beside you, you'll know what to do! 8/23

Quite frankly, and this is a pretty stark choice, when it comes to the people I employ to kill on my behalf in order to protect me, I'm a lot more comfortable with Gen. Patton then mandatory gender identity and gender expression training. 9/23

I don't want a lovely, sensitive group of individuals who have been trained to recognize the subtle differences in gender identities (all 54 of them). 10/23

I want people who will scream at each other, refer to the enemy as sons-of-bitches, scream at each other to get fucking moving, then go out and rip someone's guts out for me. 11/23

And while it will be contentious to say, I also don't want someone who requires constant medical attention in order to be battle ready, physically or emotionally, on my battlefield.

I have this weird preference for winning. Hold up, Patton said something about that: 12/23

> When you, here, everyone of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players. Americans love a winner. 13/23

> Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. 14/23

> Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American. 15/23

So, to contention:

If you are transgender, I don't want you in my military. You are an emotional liability at best, and active expense to maintain at worst. 16/23

I don't want you in my military anymore than you want me in yours, because providing an environment where someone with a serious physical disability on the battlefield can and should be present is dumb if you want to win. 17/23

(And this is where having too wide a taste in fiction fetches up a problem. 18/23

I distinctly remember reading a story in which during a military campaign a platoon of cripples is required to be fielded, with their wheelchairs being physically manhandled across the debris of the battlefield by more able-bodied troops thanks to a UN mandate for… 19/23

…accessibility for all people to all things, and the protagonist is disdainful. Which is, in fact, the right position to take. The disdain, not the mandate. 20/23

But damned if I can find the particular story and good luck trying to get a major search engine to spit something like that back.) 21/23

It's always interesting when you put, side-by-side, the statements made by people who don't believe they really have a stake in outcomes or that those outcomes are meaningful, and those who absolutely believe that what they do and what they say will have real repercussions. 22/23

The modern army? The first group. Gen. Patton? Very clearly the second.

Given my understanding of the history of the species, I'll take the second every time. 23/23

By way of follow-up, we have this from Not the Bee:

notthebee.com/article/top-ge…

I'd say that sums it up pretty well.