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.

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    14 hours ago

    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.

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      11 hours ago

      Yes! Why would that be any different?

      This is indeed about fighting for basic human rights, human dignity, and making progress against bullshit bigotry.

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        7 hours ago

        I mean how quickly people forget.

        https://americanexperience.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/African-Americans-in-the-Military_.pdf

        The War Department’s objections to military integration and the enlistment of African Americans were summarized by Secretary of War Harry Woodring, who stated that “The enlistment of Negroes . . . would demoralize and weaken the effectiveness of military units by mixing colored and white soldiers in closely related units, or even in the same units.”

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          5 hours ago

          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.

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            5 hours ago

            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.