[Content Note: Transphobia.]
"Administratively I shouldn't exist. But I do exist, so that's still the problem."—US Army Sgt. Shane Ortega, the first openly transgender active military soldier, on whose behalf, along with other trans* servicemembers, the ACLU has filed a petition regarding their potential discharge.
There has been a lot of positive momentum for trans* troops in the last year, but there is still not official policy protecting them and guaranteeing their right to serve openly.
The problem, of course, is not that Sgt. Ortega and other trans* servicemembers exist; the problem is that transphobia does.
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