S. Maturin

In this you might be admitting to a personal trait of your own.. like the inability to understand what it is that is happening around you, so you assign it 'entertainment'.. and laugh.

You will only have the rest of your life to feel embarrassed by that.

After backroom Pelosi, toilet closet server Hillary, Whispering collusion Obama, I understand, I think, why anyone would feel that the politicians should not be trusted nor believed.

So, you see, we agree.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

The best way I can respond to your comments, TexaCan, is to suggest you read the entire thread. Most of the points you brought up were discussed in one of mine or anothers posts/comments. You'll find much agreement from me on many of those same issues.

Rather than a "shady cove," I prefer sitting in a floating web-chair in the cool waters of Lake Whitney. It is HOT The heat index is right at 110 degrees.

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

Thanks for being a voice of reason. I think you have summed it up succinctly. This isn't about any particular position on trans people in the military. It's a diversion tactic.

Sorry your post will resonate with few on OPP.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

How can he possibly protect them from themselves? There is no greater danger to them in America than their own lifestyle.

Mattie Silks

So my question for that Navy Seal (?) is what exactly do you think your purpose is in life? Not interested in your ability to destroy things.

wuzblynd Loc: thomson georgia

What I don't get is how a group who make up less than 3 percent of the population get their way over the 97 percent who disagree? Real men don't want to shower with fags. No one I know wants this in our military, but if we disagree we are haters. There is no way to justify crapping on the rest of us who don't think it's ok.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Holy moly, isn't that a bit of protection overkill? I rarely get off the shady front porch, reading an ebook with my 14 year old Springer Spaniel constantly scratching on the front door to check on me. She doesn't stay out long, preferring the Arctic environment my Sgt Major of 55 years keeps the house temperature. I do keep a single shot 410 on the porch with me - damn rattlesnakes in the Florida Panhandle, especially the pygmy variety. They're not as thick as the ones on Medina AFB, Texas where I went thru "agitation training" in 1959 in the old K-9 Corps. (The agitation training was to make the dogs aggressive not the handlers.) Never witnessed so many rattlesnakes in one place in my life. Worse than Washington D.C. Well look at me I'm just rambling along completely off topic. Time to retreat to the front porch with my ebook, my pipe and my 410.

ghostgotcha Loc: The Florida swamps

Since the X-seal is a Democrat and ran on the Democratic platform then one has to ask why all those Democrats who did not vote for him (or her) did not approve of odd seals representing them? Democrats all?

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Did this, uh, "person" actually run for political office?

S. Maturin

That is a really great question..

Why is it that 50%+ are wrong when they elect a candidate and then fewer than 1-3% can dictate to all?? It_does_not_make_any_sense_at_all!

(No wonder the male sperm count in the USA has declined so sharply...Maybe there's some connection?)

Kazudy

I want to know this. When this Navy Seal Kristin Beck searved in the military, was he a man, or was she a woman? Somebody give me an answer please.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

She was 'a woman living in a man's body.' This may be more than you may want to know, but it is a brief interview with Beck back in 2014...

By Chuck Hadad, Susan Chun and Dana Ford

Kristin Beck served as a Navy SEAL for more than 20 years
Then named Chris Beck, she deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa
Beck retired in 2011 and has since come out as transgender
"No one ever met the real me," she says.

After years spent fighting in some of the world's worst wars, former U.S. Navy SEAL Kristin Beck says she knows what she wants.

"I want to have my life," she told CNN's "AC360."

"I fought for 20 years for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I want some happiness."

She wrote about the experience in a book, "Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL's Journey to Coming out Transgender."

As a man named Christopher Beck, she deployed as a SEAL 13 times, including operations in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. Along the way, Beck earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

Identifying herself as a woman, Beck had felt trapped in the wrong body since grade school, but didn't come out until after leaving the military in 2011.

Doing so earlier would have been too big a risk because in the United States, transgender men and women are banned from military service.

"That's a chance that -- if I took it -- I might be dead today," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper last year.

The CNN Film, "Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story," offers a fascinating glimpse of Beck's life. "I just wanted to tell someone my story," she says in the film. "And maybe set an example for some of the younger generation -- just say that I'm still a human being, and I deserve dignity and respect."

Beck says she deals with "a lot of prejudice out there. There's been a lot of transgender people who are killed for prejudice, for hatred. When the book came out -- some amazing support and some amazing praises -- but also some pretty amazing bigotry and hatred."

In the film, Beck talks candidly about how she reacts to prejudice. "I just try to be friendly, and I just say 'Hi, how are you doing?' You know, 'Good to meet you. I was that Navy SEAL, you know, transgender, you might've seen me on TV.' And they go, 'Oh, oh wow.' And then they realize that maybe trying to get into a fight with me wouldn't be a good idea. Maybe they should be nice."

Beck says she doesn't need people to love, or even like, her.

"But I don't want you to beat me up and kill me. You don't have to like me, I don't care. But please don't kill me."

'No one ever met the real me.'

Beck explained her years of hiding as living like an onion. Deep down, under various layers, or skins, she hid her female persona.

"It is a constant, but as you suppress and as you bottle it up, it's not like on that surface," she said. "You would never notice it because I can push it so deep, but then it does kinda, like, it gnaws at you. So it's always there."

In the film, Beck pulls back the curtain on her unique childhood, when she used to pretend to be sick so she could stay home from school and indulge in her secret. "I would put nail polish on. I could have, you know, a pair of my sister's shoes on," Beck said. "It was like a reset, it was like a vacation for me. So I had my vacation away from Chris."

Beck believes she might have wanted to become a SEAL because they are "the toughest of the tough."

She thought: "I could totally make it go away if I could be at that top level. ... Maybe I could cure myself."

But the feeling of being born in the wrong body never went away, and for her entire military career, Beck kept her secret.

She said virtually no one, out of the thousands of people she worked with, knew the truth -- it was so well hidden.

"No one ever met the real me," she said.

Though her identity was hidden, the rest of what Beck offered was true.

"I gave true brotherhood. I did my best, 150% all the time, and I gave strength and honor and my full brotherhood to every military person I ever worked with."

Beck married a woman and had children. "I was just trying to fit in to the stereotype American dream, exactly what my parents and everyone expected of me," Beck says in the film. "I met someone who's -- who's awesome, you know, we got along good."

Beck chose to reveal the secret to her wife slowly, to "see what the acceptance level" was. "She wasn't totally digging it. So she had no idea what she was getting into. Definitely wasn't the top on her list of things that she wanted, so it hurt."

As much of mainstream America learns more about what it means to be transgender, Beck says even she is still trying to figure out some aspects for herself.

"It took me a long time to get to this point where I'm comfortable living in my own skin," she says. "I'm very comfortable living the way I'm living right now, because it's natural to me now, and I've never had that."

What she seems sure of is, "I'm not a gay man, I'm not a drag queen, I am not maybe total dude, and I'm not total feminine, I'm not totally female," Beck said. "I think I'm living more in that gray world."

Mattie Silks

That doesn't match any mountain I've ever seen. I'm sure Madam Mattie Silks can find a crib just her/his/its size, don't you?

For information on Madam Mattie Silks, go to this thread, and click on the link I gave you: http://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-108437-1.html "The Feminist Movement Should Be Outlawed".

There you will find the contribution women made to the winning of the west.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

If she now a woman she should be able to conceive children right? At 77 if I think I'm 25 I should be able to run up and down the mountains of Wyoming elk hunting again according to the leftist logic.

Mattie Silks

Why did she/he have to mention the "younger generation"? Sounds like she thinks the "younger generation" needs help in self-identifying...as anything. Scary, isn't it?

I blame the feminist movement, for the most part, for the problems in gender identity. And the LGBT's, and the African-American matriarchies. In other words, all the "oppressed" people in America: All "the arrogant victims".