Witness: Army recruiting is hampered by top general’s’s admission of transgender participation.
Rep. Matt Gaetz( R., Fla. ) was informed by an Army general that the Army’s’s transgender inclusion policies are” probably not” assisting recruitment.
Gaetz questioned Gen. James McConville about whether the Army’s’s transgender inclusion measures, such as its rules allowing biological males to shower with female men, might affect the selection of” men from the American South ,” a crucial military population.
Do you believe that using this kind of material will help you raise more of them? Gaetz questioned McConville.
The common retorted,” Generally not.”
In the army, allowing soldiers to bath with female DOES NOT create a more coherent unit.
Sometimes Army Chief of Staff General McConville acknowledged that the military recruitment crisis in our country will not be helped by the Army’s’s strange force-feeding of DEI. photograph. PEAvfUUPkD on Twitter
April 19, 2023, Rep. Matt Gaetz(@ RepMattGaetz )
Gaetz told Army Secretary Christine Wormuth during the hearing that condoning” men with male genitalia showering with your feminine men” had harmed recruitment of women, arguing that the policy of transgender inclusion hindered the goal of building a” coherent team.”
Gaetz told Wormuth,” I don’t think it’s’s going to be much of a positive recruiting pitch to women that we tell them we’re’re trying to build to cohere when someone shows up with male genitalia in their shower stall.”
Women are more concerned about being sexually harassed in the Army than they are about the kinds of things that you’re’re bringing up, Wormuth retorted in response to Gaetz’s’s criticisms of the transgender policies.
The U.S. military has faced challenges to recruiting in recent years, such as a growing epidemic of obesity and mental health problems in the American population. With 77 percent of young Americans currently deemed unfit for military service, the Department of Defense has loosened restrictions on recruits with mental health problems. The Air Force this month increased its body fat allowance for recruits in order to combat the dismal recruitment numbers.
The Biden administration has introduced diversity, equity, and inclusion measures into its military branches, with an Air Force division implementing a policy of gender neutral written communications last year to improve “lethality.”
“We must embrace, promote, and unleash the potential of diversity and inclusion,” read a Pacific Air Forces order obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The Army missed its FY 2022 recruitment goal by 25 percent, or 15,000 soldiers, and expects continued decline in 2023.
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