• AdelleChattre (edited 6 years ago)
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    Offhand, I’d say the reason you’re unconvinced is because you’ve started from faulty prior assumptions. Trump’s decision is based on his ignorance and bigotry. So long as you’re beating a dead horse, you’re just not going to ride it out of there. There’ll always be heartfelt, ludicrously wrong reasons given for opposing the integration of the U.S. military, dog-whistle language like ‘unit cohesion,’ but it’s as true that the military is strongest when it represents the society it serves. For Trump, and for his water carriers, society has never included certain people. My modest suggestion is not to let his mistake be yours, even if it means examining why you’ll blithely ignore the fact of the bigotry that trans people have always until now endured. These are people, us, not costs, and not Them.