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The most important function of a army drive is to defend its nation, people, and method of life. As many have totally famous, current years introduced seismic social transformation that reordered the U.S. army’s institutional loves from constitutionalism, ordered liberty, and founding rules to an affection for the most radical parts of progressive political doctrines.

In my 20-year army profession, I watched the drive rework from a place where the standard household was a sacred pillar to one where service members risk investigation for defending the most basic ontological values. Thus it was music to my ears when then-Secretary of Defense—now, Secretary of War—Pete Hegseth proclaimed that “DEI is dead at DOD.” Yet despite his best efforts, that assertion is contested in motion and deed by social insurgents who stay firmly embedded up to the very best ranges of Pentagon management.

It’s widely reported that quite a few places of work devoted to DEI initiatives had been merely rebranded. Even in instructions that actually shuttered these precincts of political commissar, the ideology stays represented by many uniformed army and civilian workers. Closing the church doesn’t routinely de-convert its members. That actuality introduced itself again not too long ago in a refined—but strategic—selection of terminology contained within a current War Department coverage update. 

The @DeptofWar is still including Terms of Transgender Ideology in current coverage updates.

Take DOD INSTRUCTION 1327.06: MILITARY LEAVE, LIBERTY, AND ADMINISTRATIVE ABSENCE for occasion.

This update made in August, 2025 (7 months into the new administration) refers to… pic.twitter.com/hA1AMp2Rvx

— Chase Spears (@DrChaseSpears) November 14, 2025

The Department of Defense up to date DOD Instruction 1327.06: Military Leave, Liberty, and Administrative Absence in August, including language referring to “non-birth” mother and father (see above X post). This update—made seven months into the second Trump administration—issues because it makes army coverage a vehicle to legitimize activist language of the so-called “transgender” motion.

It was nicely understood when I joined the army that moms delivery kids, and fathers don’t. Husband and wife modified to partner when former President Obama overturned ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ The function was to proffer institutional legitimacy to natural or adoptive mother and father selecting homoinappropriate life. The Biden administration took this additional in forcing the transgender motion onto the army. Culturally-Marxist phrases like ‘birthing’ and ‘non-birthing’ people and mother and father had been adopted across governmental businesses as so-called ‘progress’ flags flew alongside the celebrities and stripes at federal services. This cultural revolution pressured its method into the armed forces as nicely.

Some have questioned why I draw consideration to what would possibly seem to be a small matter of a few phrases among hundreds in a single doc. The reply is that institutional language issues, as it conveys values and teaches people how to suppose. If you possibly can cut back a father to a ‘non-birth’ dad or mum, and raise homosexual relationships to be perceived on par with holy matrimony, you undermine the most basic basis upon which our society is constructed. A army that denies actuality can’t know what is price defending.

The language of the transgender cult is one of darkish fantasy that denies girls the Biblical dignity of representing the glory of man (See 1st Corinthians 11:17). It reduces female to a stereotype, and girl to a pejorative ‘cis’ identification, “chest feeder,” “menstruating person,” or “birthing person.” Men are dismissed as “non-birthers.” Leaving old-fashioned misogyny behind, the revolutionary architects of such language broadcast a complete contempt for humanity, and girls in specific—believing their existence so low-cost that misguided and wicked males can put the position on like a swimsuit. If you will get the army to observe such a perverse line of pondering, you possibly can condition its members to merely observe whatever orders are given with complete disregard for whether or not they’re in accordance with defending, preserving, defending, and conserving the United States of America. 

When I initially introduced this up in social media posting (see above; I also shared it on LinkedIn), some replied that non-birth dad or mum is a reference to adoptive mother and father. This is fake. Adoption and adoptive mother and father are referenced individually in the regulation a complete of 64 occasions, with a standalone part about adoption on web page 30. The inclusion of ‘non-birth parents’ as a class is a separate matter solely.

In addition, the earlier model (.PFD) of the Defense Department’s depart instruction didn’t comprise a single reference to “non-birth” mother and father. It referred to birthing as an event exclusive to girls.

This reality-based model of the War Department’s depart coverage was carried out on January 15, 2021, during the Biden administration. It took until 2025 for the army to insert the transgendered language, in direct violation of President Trump’s Executive Order 14168—Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, Executive Order 14185—Restoring America’s Fighting Force, and the January 29, 2025 Secretary of Defense Memorandum: Restoring America’s Fighting Force. 

The Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness was tasked to execute these orders across the War Department. But that workplace, led by Anthony Tata, inserted and revealed transgendered language into the new depart coverage. This is the same workplace accountable for reintegrating army members kicked out by the Biden administration through illegal COVID insurance policies. It has taken 11 months to reinstate a complete of 4 army service members of the over 8,000 pressured out.

The drawback of senior War Department lieutenants working to thwart the agenda that Americans voted for in November 2024 goes deeper. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll not too long ago told Politico’s White House bureau chief, Dasha Burns, that he sees no distinction between males and girls in the U.S. Army’s crucible identified as Ranger School. “I probably watched 100 soldiers walk by and could not tell you gender,” he said of a current go to to a Ranger School training website. This comes despite years’ price of well-sourced reporting that requirements had been modified for girls being drive built-in into the extraordinarily physically-challenging course. This was completed by order of the Obama administration for functions of social engineering. Proof of the detrimental impression this has on warfighting readiness continues to be dismissed by ideologically-driven energy brokers across the U.S. army advanced.

I respect that War Secretary Pete Hegseth says the army is finished with the woke agenda. But a regarding quantity of his subordinates and coverage writers beg to differ. Something critical must be completed to battle the deeply-entrenched, rebellious army tradition ensconced during the Obama and Biden eras. A drive that denies actuality and resists official rule constitutes—as many of our ancestors warned—a risk to liberty.

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