Justice
Trump's Border Wall May Finally Stop Some People: Transgender Soldiers
If the prevailing theory on Trump’s impromptu transgender military ban is right, Trump’s wall bid may have succeeded in a way we didn’t anticipate.
Just a little over a year ago, then-candidate Donald Trump took to the digital airwaves to promise that he would do more than his opponent to safeguard the rights of LGBT Americans. “I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs,” he tweeted.
At that time, Trump was also promising his supporters that he would build a “big, beautiful wall” across the southern U.S. border with Mexico. Today, President Trump’s pursuit of that border wall may have cost transgender citizens one important freedom: the right to serve their country as soldiers. This comes after the U.S. Department of Justice moved to strip LGBT workplace protections.