What's going on YouTube it's your boy Aydian here and today is a very exciting day. It's an exciting week
It's an exciting 2018 because we as a transgender community in the United States of America have had our voices heard
Okay, so what do I mean by this? I mean that starting on January first of 2018 the Trump administration
has removed their fight for
Banning transgender people in the United States military, so a couple of months ago
Trump put out a tweet we talked about it here on the channel you've probably heard about it around the news
That he was banning transgender people from applying into the military so at that moment in time
Trans people in the military were okay to stay there, but recruiters were told not to
Really go after or even though
They were technically allowed to they were kind of told not to let trans people in and to not get into that
Just put it pause on
Recruiting trans people, allow trans people in the military to still serve
But put a pause on allowing more people in until all of this kind of went through
whatever doors and desks and
Commissioners it has to go through or whatever at that time Trump was saying that just cost you much money for trans people
It's not helping our military
It's just costing us too much money as a nation
And we need to stop spending money on trans people whatever we all knew that that was a bunch of crap
We all learned that the military spends like four or five or six times the amount of money on the drugs to help
Biological men get erections to have sex as they do for transgender people to get surgeries to
make them function as a better soldier and a better human being in the world, right?
so
We don't really know what happened. I was reading a bunch of resources i'll put the NPR
My favorite one of the couple of articles I read down below in the description box
Pretty much end of day. It kind of just looks like the Trump administration gave up on the fight
I am hoping and I like to think it's because us as a transgender community as an LGBT
community as a
transgender allies around the United States band together and told the Trump administration that this was not a fight that they should go after and
That makes me really excited because I know that my voice was in there
I hope that your voice was in there, and it feels really really good to scream at the top of your lungs about something
You're really really passionate about and then we met with a little bit of
Grace in the fact that even though the Trump administration has put out no formal
statements and probably won't at all the point is is that they kind of threw in the
White flag as they say they've given up on the fight for trans people in the military as of right now so for right now
That's good on me that means that all the people who wanted to maybe join the military as a trans person
and was nervous now they don't have to, they can just be who they are and
apply and
Get in base on obviously they still have to go through all the same
Protocol and everything as before all this ban stuff was put in there
But it's just really exciting because a lot of trans people are serving right now
And that means they continue to serve they can continue to serve
Our country in the way that they want to as the identity that they want to and that means again
Anybody who is may be hesitant to maybe join the military
Maybe now can feel, take a deep breath, feel a little more comfortable joining in so that's why I'm wearing this shirt today
in support of the trans military
This is my clothing company point5cc's trans strong, this was actually created by a trans person
To really represent the trans military when all of that
Happened. so if you want to show your support for the trans military
You can just check out my clothing company pick up one of these shirts a portion of this proceeds goes into our
Nonprofit point of pride which we do have the amazing Laila Ireland on our board, very happy to have that trans woman
Military person on our board she does amazing amazing work
You can check more out about her. Just look her up on instagram
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