You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm your host Thomas Smith.

Okay, first things first, I'm still sick and coughing a lot. I'm very sorry if that affects the sound quality or anything.

Doing my best to edit around it and speak around it.

Hopefully you won't even notice, but boy, this is frustrating. It's been a week.

When is this thing going away? Anyway, that is the least of our worries today.

I was all said to do some commentary and some voicemails,

but this Trump tweet about trans people not being allowed to serve in the military happen

and I just wanted to do something so

fortunately I know somebody who is both trans and in the military and she was

willing only under condition of anonymity to come speak about it.

So her voice and her name have been altered.

That's come to think of it, that's not a bad metric for how bad your policies are is maybe the

number of people who have to like alter their voice and name in order to even talk

about them but at any rate she is doing so and I want to thank her again for doing that so not her real name

Sarah is here to talk about her experience and what she knows about this policy

what it was and what it maybe will be.

And I also have to say there, this is very early on.

She's reacting in real time.

So it's a shorter segment.

After that, we'll still have time to talk about a couple other

things but up first being trans and in the military here we go Joining me right now, thank you for coming on such short notice kind of a very quick

change of plans and that's why incidentally I like doing this episode on

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