WASHINGTON – Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) wants answers from the Merchant Marine Academy after the Long Island institution implemented a new policy allowing midshipmen undergoing gender transitions to seek exemptions from their military service requirement.
The policy, effective Oct. 13, is meant to set up procedures for the admission and education of transgender students and those “transitioning while enrolled at the academy so as to remove barriers for those with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria or who identify as transgender.”
Banks, who chairs the House Anti-Woke Caucus, led a congressional letter to the academy on Friday raising concerns.
“Our service academies are critical institutions for the security of our nation, not laboratories for the far-left’s social experiments,” he exclusively told The Post. “Forcing radical gender ideology on the young men and women who want to serve their country is dangerous and wrong.”
The new policy holds that midshipmen “with a diagnosis indicating that gender transition is medically necessary” will be treated “in the same manner, and to the same extent, as to students with other medical conditions that impact a student’s ability to matriculate, graduate and fulfill their service obligation.”
The policy was developed in response to President Biden’s 2021 executive order requiring all federal agencies “to ensure compliance with the stated policy of preventing and combating discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation,” according to the document. --->READ MORE HERE
A new Merchant Marine Academy transgender policy that allows midshipmen to undergo gender transitions and get exemptions from their military service requirement is under fire by House Republicans.
Effectively, someone seeking a free education can sign up for a gender transition, get a free education from the military and no longer have to commit to military service, House Republicans fear.
The policy went into effect Oct. 13 and sets up Merchant Marine Academy policies for those "transitioning while enrolled at the academy so as to remove barriers for those with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria or who identify as transgender," the New York Post reported Sunday.
"Our service academies are critical institutions for the security of our nation, not laboratories for the far-left's social experiments," Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told the Post. "Forcing radical gender ideology on the young men and women who want to serve their country is dangerous and wrong."
The policy comes from President Joe Biden's 2021 executive order that required his administration to "to ensure compliance with the stated policy of preventing and combating discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation."
Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, lamented the "radical" policy will "lead to the exploitation of our once-pristine academies." --->READ MORE HERE
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