{"id":126478,"date":"2025-04-10T02:18:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=126478"},"modified":"2025-04-10T02:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:18:54","slug":"top-us-navy-admiral-defends-non-binary-sailor-amid-some-republican-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=126478","title":{"rendered":"Top US Navy admiral defends non-binary sailor amid some Republican criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/210615165026-michael-gilday-file-super-169.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p><cite><\/p>\n<p>      <span data-editable=\"location\"><\/span><br \/>\n      <span data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        &nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-fb48eb634fec518b1d50602bb8ea83da@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The top US Navy admiral ardently defended a non-binary sailor on Tuesday amid some criticism from Republican lawmakers, saying he is &ldquo;particularly proud of this sailor.&rdquo;\n    <\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-defbb692459e66fe4b76dd72471c8ca1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The sailor, LTJG Audrey Knutson, had their story shared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cq6MnU1p5Y0\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Navy&rsquo;s Instagram page<\/a> last week. In a short video, Knutson said they are proud to serve as non-binary, especially because their grandfather served in the Navy as a gay man in World War II. During a deployment last fall aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, Knutson said their highlight was reading a poem to the whole ship at an LGBTQ spoken word night. The Instagram video garnered nearly 17,000 likes.\n    <\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-66c215a626f292731afe1c468d0ccfd2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Subsequently, Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1646205509568020488\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> a portion of the clip with the caption, &ldquo;While China prepares for war, this is what they have our US Navy focused on.&rdquo; On Tuesday, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, continued attacking the video, telling the Senate Armed Services Committee he had &ldquo;a lot of problems with the video.&rdquo;\n    <\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-89b6136fce8aa1bf20d2203e8531705d@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday defended the sailor, emphasizing that it&rsquo;s the job of a commanding officer to build a warfighting team.\n    <\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-d16cb8436cba334e9ee94bb51f149c53@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you why I&rsquo;m particularly proud of this sailor,&rdquo; Gilday told the hearing. &ldquo;So, her grandfather served during World War II, and he was gay and he was ostracized in the very institution that she not only joined and is proud to be a part of, but she volunteered to deploy on Ford and she&rsquo;ll likely deploy again next month when Ford goes back to sea.&rdquo;\n    <\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-a7fbf22b009e3b7d2eb5d24210120f5f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Gilday used female pronouns to refer to Knutson but the Navy told CNN Knutson&rsquo;s pronouns of choice are non-binary.\n    <\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-fb15dc1abcfd54076bb2769a374d07f5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            &ldquo;We ask people from all over the country, from all walks of life, from all different backgrounds to join us,&rdquo; Gilday said, &ldquo;and then it&rsquo;s the job of a commanding officer to build a cohesive warfighting team that&rsquo;s going to follow the law, and the law requires that we be able to conduct prompt, sustained operations at sea. That level of trust that a commanding officer develops across that unit has to be able to be grounded on dignity and respect, and so &hellip; if that officer can lawfully join the United States Navy, is willing to serve and willing to take the same oath that you and I took to put their life on the line, then I&rsquo;m proud to serve beside them.&rdquo;\n    <\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-f7eeb69a2306b62e7d73a89393755f05@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Some Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill have attacked the military for being too &ldquo;woke,&rdquo; claiming it has been one of the causes of the military&rsquo;s poor recruiting numbers, despite a recent Army survey showing only 5% of potential recruits were concerned about &ldquo;wokeness.&rdquo;\n    <\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-689094dfa58924628601e5ff9714429b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Last month, Republican Rep. Cory Mills and several others went after the Defense Department on its diversity, equity and inclusion training at a House Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on military personnel. Mills said, &ldquo;We absolutely 150% can out-pronoun every single one of our adversaries, and China and Russia I&rsquo;m sure are quaking in their boots over this.&rdquo;\n    <\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-f560e0def8d0c0a1e1490fcb0b7b2bff@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In response, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gil Cisneros said diversity and equal opportunity training have been a part of the military for decades.\n    <\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-41a5f42474abfe19b911107530861526@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            At another hearing in early-March with the military&rsquo;s top enlisted leaders, Sgt. Maj. Of the Army Michael Grinston stressed that the military&rsquo;s focus remains on combat lethality, even with additional training on diversity and inclusion.\n    <\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-f239fb46f9ad4c83ef4984258a4bf5a9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            &ldquo;There is one hour of equal opportunity training in basic training, and 92 hours of rifle marksmanship training,&rdquo; Grinston said at the time. &ldquo;And if you go to [One Station Unit Training], there is 165 hours of rifle marksmanship training and still only one hour of equal opportunity training.&rdquo;\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/18\/politics\/gilday-defends-non-binary-sailor\/index.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN &nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp; The top US Navy admiral ardentl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}