Elaine Donnelly

President Donald Trump has been working to restore sound priorities that promote military readiness, not demoralizing social agendas that the previous administration pushed to extremes. Recent news reports brought to our attention by our friends at the Center for Military Readiness suggest, however, that some Defense Department and military officials are not following the President’s lead and orders.

Conservatives were united in opposition to the Democrats’ recent passage of H. Res. 124, a bill urging the military hierarchy to disobey lawful presidential directives on transgenderism and military service. If there were ever examples of RINOs who need conservative primary opponents it is the five Republicans who joined Democrats to pass the Resolution.

The toll-free Capitol Switchboard is (1-866-220-0044) we urge CHQ readers and friends to call their Representative TODAY. Tell your Representative to vote NO on HR 124, a Democrat bill that would force the military to enlist transgender recruits and essentially demands that the armed forces disobey the policy directives of the Commander-in-Chief.

Our friend Elaine Donnelly, founder and president of the Center for Military Readiness, gave us the heads-up that Marine Corps Commandant General Robert B. Neller quietly announced on a Friday afternoon that for the first time in history, a platoon of fifty enlisted female recruits would be housed and trained alongside five male platoons.

President Trump has signed a new memorandum that bans most individuals suffering from gender dysphoria from US military service. The new directive adopts recommendations from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that "transgender persons who require or have undergone gender transition" cannot serve.

The greatest constitutional crisis of Trump's presidency is the overreach of the federal judiciary, manifested first in the various lower court orders attempting to stymie the President's orders on immigration, and now, most seriously, by judges attempting to bypass the President to run the military and the Department of Defense from the federal bench.

Federal judges do not have the power to run the military, but they will continue to do so unless the Executive Branch vigorously takes up the fight. Unfortunately, LGBT activists and Obama holdovers at Defense and Justice are about to give away core constitutional powers of the Presidency to the judiciary.

Just when we thought the issue of transgenders in the military had finally been laid to rest, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Susan Collins (R-ME) announced their co-sponsorship of an amendment to force the armed forces to retain and recruit transgender personnel.

President Trump has apparently issued guidance to ensure that limited military resources will not be misused to indulge transgender demands and theories that are contradicted by biological realities, science, and common sense.

We applaud President Trump for making his decision ending Obama's military transgender policies, but it is clear that the Pentagon is not going to move until it gets an order from the White House.

The next step is to formalize what the Commander-in-Chief announced on July 26.  The Pentagon must formally revoke expendable Obama-era administrative directives, which were written in consultation with LGBT activist groups.

Secretary James Mattis has quietly squelched (at least temporarily) the Obama plan to enlist transgender recruits into the United States military services. However, the question remains whether Mattis plans to kill Obama’s plan or to eventually let it become Pentagon policy.

Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness, has released a special report Department of Defense & Military Services Should Revoke Problematic Transgender Policy Directives and Instructions and denounced the efforts of Obama Administration holdovers in the Pentagon who continue to implement transgender directives and training programs, as if the presidential election never happened.

The Democratic Platform and Hillary Clinton support Obama’s women-in-the-infantry mandates, and an army of advisers and sensitivity trainers are planning to wear down “hyper-masculine” attitudes and “unconscious bias.”  This will leave men less prepared to fight the enemy, but all will be schooled in gender identities, gun control, “white privilege,” and climate change.