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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    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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      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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        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.