Pentagon reverses Trans ban

It’s a good article… I posted it over in the trans awareness thread, too. It works here as well.

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The good news is that if Trans people are allowed to serve openly for the next 4-8+ years before the next regressive administration takes office then everyone has time to get used to the idea and there may not be the political will to put the genie back in the bottle anymore. At least that’s how things played out after Harry Truman issued the executive order to desegregate the military in 1948.

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For the “usual suspects”, Freedom flows in only one direction,

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Missed that, sorry. So there is a good trans thread…I couldn’t find it!

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I hope so, too. The “global gag rule” has flipped back and forth since Reagan, but actually having people in the military should be different.

Every time these discussions about who can serve I think of the Onion article about gays serving in the military.

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