Transgender Activist McBride Calls Out Trump’s 5 Vietnam Deferments
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SARAH MCBRIDE: Well, what’s clear is that for the roughly either 6,000 to 15,000 transgender people who are actively serving in our military right now, this policy change would have sweeping impacts on their lives,
their careers, their families. This is really a mean-spirited, unpatriotic, and dangerous attack on people who are bravely serving their country right now. And while it’s still early in terms of what the policy will actually shape up to be, what it threatens to be is an attack on as many as 15,000 active duty transgender service members, people who are bravely serving this country, something that I will remind President Trump he failed to do after five deferments to Vietnam.
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My best guess is that this is the most “Trump Base Friendly” way to reduce military numbers and continue the Obama administration reduction numbers that were identified as redundant.