After 20 years in the Army, Master Sergeant Amiah Sale’s future hangs in the balance.
The Trump administration has made it a mission to purge all transgender service members from the military, but as the trans military ban makes its way through the courts, some service members, like Sale, are spending their days in limbo.
She’s not a cis white male so people like Hegseth don’t want her in the military in the first place. Not sure why a trans person would want to serve in an organization that actively hates them. This is a classic example of leopards eating faces.
A lot of us join pre realization. It’s a way to “man up” both for trans women trying desperately to become enough of a man like they were “supposed to be” and a masculine career that conservative parents approve of for closeted trans men. Then, especially if you’re an officer, once you’re in and used to it it’s a career with great benefits including a full pension after 20 years and the alternative is often a full career change.
Oh also enlisting is a popular “career of last resort” for people struggling to function in society without any known disqualifying disabilities. Incidentally, a lot of trans people’s pre realization dysphoria leads to having no idea why you can’t just get your shit together and develop discipline. And since the military promises it’ll give you discipline it can be attractive, especially when combined with the prior paragraph.
Yeah this was me. I didn’t really have any concept of self aside from what my dad was doing and that’s what he did. So that’s what I was going to do. It paid really well but once I realized that the gig was up I had to leave or else get caught into the political quagmire going on now.
I think people haven’t read your three sentences, because I think everyone would agree at the start, but most disagree by the end. She’s been in for 20 years. That’s where you get your pension. She joined and served through bush Obama trump Biden and now trump again. This isn’t a leopards eating face thing, considering 20 years ago I’m not sure she was aware she’d be a she yet.
Want to tell that the the African Americans who also went into the military despite being openly hated?
This isn’t about leopards eating faces, this is about a brave person fighting for basic human rights, human dignity, and making progress against bullshit bigotry conservatives yet again.
Yes! Why would that be any different?
This is indeed about fighting for basic human rights, human dignity, and making progress against bullshit bigotry.
I mean how quickly people forget.
https://americanexperience.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/African-Americans-in-the-Military_.pdf
I don’t know the point you’re trying to make. I didn’t forget, and that’s why I think marginalized peoples shouldn’t fight for the oppressor. Those that do, know what they’re getting in for better than the other soldiers.
Not directed at you forgetting, more just the original OP and in general.
Didn’t feel like editing my original comment and just wanted to point this out to reinforce both of our points.
I think TriCare used to cover surgery.
It did, and even before then there were ways to get the VA to do it, especially for trans men’s top surgery.