MSNBC - It’s long been estimated that the U.S. military was quite possibly the country’s largest employer of trans people when they were allowed to serve openly for the first time under former President Obama. As a demographic, American trans people were at one point near the top for largest percent of a country serving in the military, behind only American Samoa.
In a country where trans people so often face casual bigotry in job and home-searching, the military was a place where they could build a career and a life under government protection. Now that government is targeting them and kicking them out.
The military ban tells a much broader story of the current state of legal rights for trans people in the U.S. This is the second time around that Trump has ordered a ban on military service; last time President Joe Biden reversed the order. It’s likely that the next Democratic president will similarly lift this ban, but that will be too late for many who are having their careers and lives ruined by Trump today. Beyond that, the next Republican president will likely reinstitute yet another ban — and on and on the eternal transphobia carousel turns.
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