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.
I’m happy that in my country of citizenship trans people are excluded from the army. I don’t wanna get drafted or something.
Are women excluded from your country’s military?
Yes (except for women in medical profession), but as an AMAB transfem person I would still be up for a draft because of my legal gender situation. It’s the medical “transsexuality” diagnosis that excludes people like me.
The thing that sucks is the way I see it, it’s discrimination regardless making transgender people out to be unfit to serve. It puts us in a lesser position than cisgender people