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

Are women excluded from your country’s military?

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.

That sort of thing goes on your record though. You don’t simply leave the service without the government knowing. They will literally put a warrant out for your arrest

Defected? Like went to a different country?

One can’t just quit the National guard. There’s a contract that holds them for a period of time. Imagine somebody signs a 6-year contract in 2022. I don’t think they can be held liable for Trump’s actions when it wasn’t even clear he was going to actually run again. I signed a 4-year contract as an active duty service member in 2021. I got out in January last year and so I’m thankful for that. But every day or so I have to think about what my colleagues would have to decide. They’re not in it to subjugate people. They’re in it for a steady career and because they believed in a liberal America and looking to make the world a more stable place. The military is a sword and it really depends on who’s using it, whether it’s good or bad.