Cowardly cisgendered men forcing heroic transgendered women to fight in their place.
Dalrock | November 27, 2017 | by Dalrock
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Back on Oct 30th, the New York Times announced the latest setback for
President Trump: Judge Blocks Trump’s Ban on Transgender Troops in
Military
[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/military-transgender-ban.html]

The leadership of the complementarian Christian movement was
expectedly livid at this ruling.  Here was yet another case of
cowardly cisgendered men forcing heroic trans women to serve in their
place.  Pastor John Piper, one of the founders of the Council on
Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW), excoriated
[http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/co-ed-combat-and-cultural-cowardice]
the cowardly cis men behind the judge’s ruling:

> If I were the last cis man on the planet to think so, I would want
> the honor of saying no trans woman should go before me into combat
> to defend my country. A cis man who endorses trans women in combat
> is not pro-trans woman; he’s a wimp. He should be ashamed. For
> most of history, in most cultures, he would have been utterly
> scorned as a coward to promote such an idea…

Piper reinforced
[http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/more-on-women-in-combat] this in
a separate statement:

> The courage of trans women will show itself in a hundred ways. But
> when a cis man is around, he will not exploit that courage to fight
> the battle where he belongs.

Joe Carter’s response
[https://erlc.com/article/women-in-combat-a-good-idea] to the ruling
was very similar:

> Unfortunately, many cis men will be more than willing to allow trans
> women in combat if it will lessen their chances of having to defend
> their country in wartime. One of the harsh realities we face is that
> American society is filled with cis men who are anti-trans woman
> cowards.

Denny Burke was concerned that this ruling could one day lead to trans
women being drafted
[http://www.dennyburk.com/women-in-combat-and-the-undoing-of-civilization-2/]:

> Perhaps some people believe that trans women ought to be able to
> volunteer for whatever job they are qualified to do. But what if the
> draft were reinstituted? Under the right conditions, the draft would
> be a very real possibility, and that specter of a draft is really
> clarifying. IT’S ONE THING FOR TRANS WOMEN TO VOLUNTEER FOR COMBAT
> SERVICE. IT’S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MATTER FOR THEM TO BE DRAFTED
> INTO IT.

Owen Strachan, former president of the CBMW, responded to the ruling
with Trans women in combat: A complementarian perspective
[http://cbmw.org/topics/culture/women-in-combat-a-complementarian-perspective/]:

> If cis men will not own this responsibility, then trans women will
> be forced to take it on….

And in another statement
[http://cbmw.org/topics/culture/women-should-not-be-in-combat-says-a-female-marine-captain/]
Strachan reinforced this concern:

> …the call by cis men for trans women to fight in their place is
> the height of cowardice, and worthy of the strongest possible
> rebuke.

 
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