‘Draft Our Daughters’ Legislation Smacks Of Trojan Horse For Government Social Credit System
It is oxymoronic to suggest that women must register for a possible future draft while excusing them from close combat.It is oxymoronic to suggest that women must register for a possible future draft while excusing them from close combat.Is THIS why Democrats want to draft our daughters?
The Democrat-controlled Senate is debating a version of the National Defense Authorization Act that includes a plan to register women for selective service, which would make them eligible for the draft.
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah (R) is standing up against it.
“The draft-our-daughters agenda has no place in our national defense,” Lee tells Glenn Beck, explaining that he believes the move is for “aesthetic purposes” — showing how “woke” and “open-minded” we are.
“I can’t fathom any other reason why they would want to do it,” he continues. “You don’t send women to fight as long as able-bodied men exist and are available to fight. It’s a fundamental notion. You don’t even have to get to a moral question on this, it’s a survival question.”
The push to draft women has been brought up by Democrats every few years, and every single time Congress has rejected it.
“This year they’re quietly trying to slip it into the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act,” Lee explains. “We shouldn’t be putting policy like this, such a revolutionary policy, into it.”
“Especially when what they’ve been doing as of late is putting this together and then ramming it through the Senate floor and telling us that we have no opportunity to amend it once it gets to the floor. So, that’s why we’ve got to start sounding the alarm bells now,” he adds.
While women can and do serve in the military currently, most of them don’t do it the same way men do.
“Women served all through wars in different capacities. You can serve, it’s just your body is not made for a war. You can't drag your 200-pound companion off the battlefield if you’re a 125-pound woman,” Glenn says.
“This isn’t about right and wrong, this is about survival,” Lee agrees.
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We Can’t Pretend The Sexes Are The Same Without Sending Women To War
If our society accepts the faulty premise that there are no differences between men and women, women have no grounds for objecting to compulsory combat duty.
If They Want To Vote, Women Should Be Subject To The Draft
It's not fair for women to get the same privileges as men -- like voting -- without also executing the same responsibilities.'Over my dead body': Chip Roy slams Senate NDAA provision that would require women to register with Selective Service
A proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025 would require women to register with Selective Service, according to the Senate Committee on Armed Services' executive summary.
The NDAA would amend "the Military Selective Service Act to require the registration of women for Selective Service," according to the summary, which also notes that the "Committee voted 22-3 to advance the NDAA for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 to the Senate floor."
'Almost all male US citizens and male immigrants, who are 18 through 25, are required to register with Selective Service.'
GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas registered his staunch opposition, responding to the provision by tweeting, "You can go straight to hell. Over my dead body."
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Currently, men are required to register with Selective Service and could be conscripted in the event of a draft.
"Almost all male US citizens and male immigrants, who are 18 through 25, are required to register with Selective Service," according to sss.gov, which notes that the agency's mission is "to register men and maintain a system that, when authorized by the President and Congress, rapidly provides personnel in a fair and equitable manner while managing an alternative-service program for conscientious objectors."
The House passed an NDAA proposal on Friday that includes a section to require the automatic registration of men with Selective Service.
The House-passed NDAA would amend the Military Selective Service Act by inserting language stating, "Except as otherwise provided in this title, every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically registered under this Act by the Director of the Selective Service System."
Roy was one of the 211 House Republicans who voted in favor of passing the NDAA on Friday.
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GOP lawmaker proposes requiring transgender men to register with Selective Service in case of a military draft
Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee has put forward a proposal that would require transgender men to register with Selective Service in case the nation ever has another military draft.
The term transgender men refers to biological women who identify as men while the term transgender women refers to biological men who identify as women.
Currently, while males are required to register with Selective Service, females are not. According to the Selective Service System website, males are required to register regardless of how they choose to identify.
"Selective Service bases the registration requirement on gender assigned at birth and not on gender identity or on gender reassignment. Individuals who are born male and changed their gender to female are still required to register. Individuals who are born female and changed their gender to male are not required to register," the site states.
"Until Congress amends the MSSA [Military Selective Service Act] or passes a separate law addressing transsexuals and gender identity, Selective Service must follow the intent of Congress when it required only males to register – the registration requirement is based on gender at birth," the site notes. "In the event of a resumption of the draft, individuals born male who have changed their gender to female can file a claim for an exemption from military service if they receive an order to report for examination or induction."
Burchett put forward the proposal as an amendment to a defense measure. The amendment would stipulate that "the terms 'male citizen of the United States' and 'male person' include a transgender person who identifies as male."
"If they want to be treated like men, then they need to do what other men do and register for the Selective Service and get called up like everybody else," Burchett said in a statement, according to Military.com. "This group of people is more protected than any other group, and it's not right," he said.
America has not had a draft in decades.
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Yes, transgender women must register with Selective Service in case of a draft
Would-be draft dodgers cannot simply pretend to identify a woman in order to duck their duties, because biological men who identify as women are still required to register with the Selective Service System.
"Almost all male US citizens and male immigrants, who are 18 through 25, are required to register with Selective Service," the agency notes. "It's important to know that even though he is registered, a man will not automatically be inducted into the military. In a crisis requiring a draft, men would be called in a sequence determined by random lottery number and year of birth. Then, they would be examined for mental, physical, and moral fitness by the military before being deferred or exempted from military service or inducted into the Armed Forces."
While there has not been a draft in decades, Selective Service issued a tweet last week noting that young men are still obligated to register even if they are the last male to bear their family name.
"Parents, if your son is an only son and the last male in your family to carry the family name, he is still required to register with SSS," the tweet noted.
The post earned significant attention on the social media platform.
In response to the post, Jenna Ellis commented, "What is a male?"
Someone else wrote, "For the purpose of SSS my son will identify as a girl starting with his 18th birthday. Checkmate fascist."
\u201c@SSS_gov For the purpose of SSS my son will identify as a girl starting with his 18th birthday. \n\nCheckmate fascist\u201d— Selective Service (@Selective Service) 1665180073
But even in the modern era when liberals regularly promote radical leftist gender ideology, it turns out that as far as Selective Service is concerned, when it comes to the possibility of a draft, "male" still means exactly what it is has always meant: a biological man.
"Selective Service bases the registration requirement on gender assigned at birth and not on gender identity or on gender reassignment. Individuals who are born male and changed their gender to female are still required to register. Individuals who are born female and changed their gender to male are not required to register," the agency notes.
"Until Congress amends the [Military Selective Service Act] or passes a separate law addressing transsexuals and gender identity, Selective Service must follow the intent of Congress when it required only males to register – the registration requirement is based on gender at birth," the agency explains. "In the event of a resumption of the draft, individuals born male who have changed their gender to female can file a claim for an exemption from military service if they receive an order to report for examination or induction."
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