Military experts warn that American troops could face legal consequences if they refuse to use a company player’s recommended pronoun.
Capt. A 2020 Equal Opportunity law, according to Thomas Wheatley, associate professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was let troops to face harassment charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) if they refuse to accommodate a transgender support person’s gender identity.
The United States military “is right to want to safeguard its trans service members ‘ freedom and happiness.” However, it owes the same security to those with a different viewpoint on the subject, especially when that view is rooted in personal conscience, Wheatley said.
According to Wheatley, the government does not have any concept directly outlawing “misgendering” as the LGBTQ community would prefer, but recent guidance suggests that soldiers are in contravention of Military Equal Opportunity laws against discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation if they use “incorrect” pronouns.
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British troops had been court- martialed for “refusing to use another person’s self- identified pronouns, yet when their refusal stems from principled spiritual conviction”, Wheatley warned.
” This law applies to service members at all times and in all locations, even when they’re off duty and in the privacy of their off- post residence”, he added.
William Thibeau, director of the Claremont Institute’s American Military Project, accused the “military policy and legal infrastructure” of existing” to wage war on Americans with deeply- held traditional beliefs about man and woman”.
Thibeau urged lawmakers to “end this tyranny of liberalism before it is officially levied against American soldiers preferring to live in reality.”
