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Donald Trump's vow to ban trans troops was met with fierce protest in 2017. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty)
Pentagon policies that allow trans folk to serve in the US military went into effect Thursday (April 30), finally undoing Donald Trump’s cruel and unnecessary ban.
It was the upshot of a tug-of-war between administrations and a year of litigation but in 2019, the former president’s abrupt ban formally went into effect. Closing the ranks of the armed forces from trans folk.
And for those trans folk eager to serve, they were left feeling like “caged animals” by the ban.