A Tennessee lawmaker proposed an amendment to an upcoming defense package that could back leftists into a linguistic corner on gender identity using the draft.
With woke agendas seemingly at the forefront of the U.S. military and branches on target to miss enlistment goals yet again, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) proposed a definition change that would see the service stop skirting gender ideology and be forced to contend with the consequences. Since President Joe Biden allowed for the gender confused to serve openly, the congressman wants to make ensure that women who think they’re men get treated as such in the Selective Service.
In the coming week, the House of Representatives will begin voting on amendments to the annual National Defense Authorization Act and Burchett has offered his own that states for the Military Selective Service Act, “The terms ‘male citizen of the United States’ and ‘male person’ include a transgender person who identifies as male.”
Speaking with Military.com, the Tennessee representative said, “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. This group of people is more protected than any other group, and it’s not right.”
Burchett’s amendment did not allow for the Selective Service Act to allow for men identifying as women to be exempt from registering for the draft and the website currently states, “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.”
It remains to be seen whether or not the amendment will even make it to the House floor for a vote as over 1,400 amendments had been proposed for the House Rules Committee to weed through and choose which advance in the process.
The congressman’s proposal is separate from other efforts made recently attempting to open up Selective Service to women as well as men and appeared more in line with a 2016 proposal from then-Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) whose effort aimed to box Democrats in with regard to women serving in combat roles. At the time, Hunter’s amendment advanced with bipartisan support only to be removed from the final version of the defense bill.
Burchett’s amendment is one of several measures surrounding the NDAA focusing on gender ideology. Currently, the bill already aims to ban the Pentagon from funding drag shows, seeks to enact a “Parents’ Bill of Rights” for Defense Department schools, and would require a study be conducted to determine the impact men using women’s spaces has on those women.
Additional amendments up for consideration seek to limit service members’ ability to request a transfer because of gender and sexuality-related laws in the state they are stationed in, limit or prohibit so-called “gender-affirming” care provided to service members and their families, protect women-only spaces from being shared by men who think they’re women and protect kids in Defense Department schools from being exposed to gender ideology materials.
Were it to advance from the committee and ultimately be included in the NDAA, the amendment would require only those women identifying as men aged 18 “on or after January 1, 2024” to register for the draft.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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