It is perverse to make people participate in an institution they deplore in order to access resources that should be guaranteed to all.
I wrote “Inclusion in the Atrocious,” about the controversy surrounding trans exclusion in the military, with Eli Massey.
An excerpt:
It is perverse to make people participate in an institution they deplore in order to access resources that should be guaranteed to all. That should make some of the arguments for trans access to the military even more disturbing. It’s the source of a stable job, free healthcare, and funding for college, and many people join for those reasons. But what can possibly be good about a society where trans people must sign up for the possibility of losing life and limb in order to be guaranteed such basic entitlements?
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Image: The Face of War, 1940 – 1941 , Salvador Dali