Protest The Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Ban On Transgender Military At Westlake Rally

April 12, 2019• byMichael Strangeways

Today, April 12th, the Trump Administration’s exclusionary and discriminatory ban on transgender Americans serving in the military went into effect.

Tomorrow, Saturday the 13th of April, Minority Veterans of America and OutServe-SLDN will join forces with partner organizations to protest the ban with a rally in support of transgender military service members and in opposition to “the unwarranted, discriminatory, and inhumane policy that bans otherwise qualified transgender individuals from military service…”

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The Seattle rally will be held at Westlake Park at 11 a.m., and will feature speakers including Congressman Adam Smith, Staff Sgt. Patricia King (interviewed Wednesday on The View ), Elayne Wylie of Gender Justice League, a representative of Senator Patty Murray’s Office, Lindsay Church of Minority Veterans of America, and other trans and gender diverse veterans.

More information at FightTheBan.org

Seattle Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/809341409458582/

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.