On the fiftieth anniversary of the expose by TIME magazine on decorated veteran Leonard Matlovich who outed himself in protest of the US military’s ban on gay and lesbian service members, the Trump administration has moved forward with its efforts to remove transgender soldiers with a disqualifying medical discharge of gender dysphoria, reversing a 2016 decision that lifted a previous ban. Between the first and second administrations, several policy and posture changes occurred and the paper trail, attestations and doctor’s visits, directed at the time, are now being used as an incriminating paper-trail to push more out as the rules change again.
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For the first leg of our return camping trip after many, many years to the Mecklinbergischer Seeplatte, we took another campsite on the Lei... -
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First reported by Norwegian news outlet Dagen Nรฆringsliv—and possibly the rather sad and pathetic intimation was even thought fit to print ... -
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The island settlement central to Slavic paganism up until the twelfth century and the forced conversions of the Wendish and Polabian crusa... -
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