The Supreme Court has made clear that discriminating against people based on sex or sexual orientation is illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. That has not stopped the Air Force Academy from initiating a new program explicitly closed to “cisgender men.” Horrible as that is, it pales compared to some of the other things Biden has been doing that will destroy America’s military readiness.
The Air Force Academy notified its cadets (i.e., students) that it is offering a new fellowship program—the Brooke Owens Fellowship—for “gender minorities” only, with straight men explicitly excluded:
If you are a cisgender woman, a transgender woman, non-binary, agender, bigender, two-spirit, demi gender, genderfluid, genderqueer, or another form of gender minority, this program is for you. If you are a cisgender man, this program isn’t for you… but we encourage you to check out our spin- off programs, the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship and the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program!
The Brooke Owens fellowship was established to encourage more women to enter the aerospace field. That kind of discrimination has long been accepted, although it shouldn’t be. The feeling was that it was still a necessary form of affirmative action for women. The program’s having morphed from women to myriad imaginary genders, though, blows apart any pretense that this is a women-only program. It’s now discriminating against both women and men.
Image: The Navy celebrates Pride Month. Twitter screen grab.
These woke gender identity divisions come on top of the Pentagon’s multi-year effort to turn the military from a coherent merit-based institution into one riven by racial animus. A military recommending Ibram X. Kendi, a purveyor of racism, is not trying to be “antiracist”; it’s aiming straight for hardcore racial resentment. Ads by topple View More
No wonder, as Iraqveteran8888 explained in a detailed thread, nobody wants to join the military. One of the problems is that today’s Democrat-run military is a huge “social justice” experiment that is hostile to the type of people who have long been the backbone of the American military: Patriotic, conservative men. Add in decades of lies and America’s failure to make itself a nation worth defending, and you’ve got recruiting problems: