Outward | A Trans Military Member Speaks Out

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this episode, Christina Cauterucci speaks with Sasha Buchert, Counsel and Nonbinary and Transgender Rights Project Director at Lambda Legal, and Geirid Morgan, a trans Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, about the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people serving in the military. Sasha walks us through Lambda Legal’s case challenging the ban and the broader constitutional implications, while Geirid shares her personal experience navigating shifting policies, coming out while in service, and the uncertainty that trans service members continue to face. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.2	Thank you. Hello and welcome to Outward Slate's podcast about queer life.
1:07.5	I'm Christina Cotarucci, a senior writer at Slate.
1:13.0	And for the past few weeks, it's felt like we've been standing in front of a fire hose, trying to make sense of the flood of power grabs and devastating policy changes
1:20.2	coming from the White House. Since Donald Trump took office last month, he's issued a slew of
1:25.9	executive orders designed to make it harder for trans people to participate in public life.
1:30.7	Two of them specifically target trans kids with restrictions on gender affirming care and the kinds of support they can get at school.
1:37.7	There was also an executive order that will make trans people revert to the gender marker assigned to them at birth when they renew their passports,
1:45.0	which sets the stage for the harassment and humiliation of trans people at airports, hotels,
1:51.0	anywhere else you have to show your documents. Even though we knew, in some sense, that this was
1:55.3	coming, it's all been really demoralizing and I'm sure scary for me and I'm sure a lot of you. Sometimes it feels
2:05.3	right to just tune things out and not pay attention to the news, but also for me, I'm really
2:11.6	grateful to have this show as a kind of container for grappling with everything that's happening
2:16.3	right now and understanding the impact.
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