Sebastian Mann

President Trump’s opposition to trans people serving in the military has sparked protests A US judge ruling on President Trump’s trans military ban has likened the policy to the discrimination of black people in the armed forces. Marsha J Pechman, a federal judge in Seattle, is hearing a challenge aimed at blocking the effort to exclude trans people from serving. This week, in comments reported by Bloomberg, she compared the policy to the historical exclusion of blacks from the military and the ban on mixed units. She said it had been an “error” that the courts signed off on those past decisions. The judge […]