The Texas Standard, ran a story this week celebrating transsexualism headlined “The First Openly Transgender Soldier In the Texas Army National Guard Tells Her Story.”
The piece by Joy Diaz says that one “Harriet Green is the first transgender soldier in the Texas Army National Guard to have her gender fully recognized. When she came out to her superiors, the Department of Defense didn’t yet have any guidelines in place for transgender open service.
The male soldier now living as if he were female let the secret be known to peers after an argument about the Texas Privacy Act, or bathroom bill, with another sergeant who favored the bill. Green says the support of the women in her unit helped allow her to serve openly.
“The women of my unit actually all stood up together of their own accord. They didn’t come to me first,” Green says. “They said, ‘Sergeant Green is one of us. She’s our sister, she belongs in this tent.’”
And you know what? It is just fine that these women soldiers consider Green a “sister” as any person is free to declare anyone or anything a sister. What isn’t correct is the acceptance of the idea that Green is indeed female.
No matter what mannerisms a person has, what clothes a person wears, or what surgery a person has, their biology doesn’t change. A male is still a male and a female still a female. This pretend behavior is adults acting as children and choosing to live in a fairytale where unwelcome realities are ignored.
Life and History teaches that ignoring realities ends in disaster for both individuals and for societies.
We need sober-minded adults in the military, not those who choose fantasy.
The military needs sober-minded people, not fantasists.
Robert Pratt
The Texas Standard, ran a story this week celebrating transsexualism headlined “The First Openly Transgender Soldier In the Texas Army National Guard Tells Her Story.”
The piece by Joy Diaz says that one “Harriet Green is the first transgender soldier in the Texas Army National Guard to have her gender fully recognized. When she came out to her superiors, the Department of Defense didn’t yet have any guidelines in place for transgender open service.
The male soldier now living as if he were female let the secret be known to peers after an argument about the Texas Privacy Act, or bathroom bill, with another sergeant who favored the bill. Green says the support of the women in her unit helped allow her to serve openly.
“The women of my unit actually all stood up together of their own accord. They didn’t come to me first,” Green says. “They said, ‘Sergeant Green is one of us. She’s our sister, she belongs in this tent.’”
And you know what? It is just fine that these women soldiers consider Green a “sister” as any person is free to declare anyone or anything a sister. What isn’t correct is the acceptance of the idea that Green is indeed female.
No matter what mannerisms a person has, what clothes a person wears, or what surgery a person has, their biology doesn’t change. A male is still a male and a female still a female. This pretend behavior is adults acting as children and choosing to live in a fairytale where unwelcome realities are ignored.
Life and History teaches that ignoring realities ends in disaster for both individuals and for societies.
We need sober-minded adults in the military, not those who choose fantasy.