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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Trump Has Found a Cruel New Way to Attack Trans Veterans

Andrew Koppelman

Earlier this year, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order that expelled transgender troops from the U.S. military, the administration claimed—against all evidence—that bigotry against trans people was not the reason behind the move. There’s no longer any plausible deniability, though, as Trump’s Defense Department recently escalated its war on trans service members by taking away some of those soldiers’ pensions and benefits.

I explain in a new column at Slate.

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