Astraea condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to stay injunctions in recent trans military ban cases, effectively banning trans people from serving in the military. We deplore this stance, as its function is to dehumanize trans people and deny them a key avenue of access to resources like healthcare and education. Like many other tactics deployed by the current administration, we see this action for what it is–an effort to pretend to “protect” an invisible electorate from an imaginary enemy.
At the same time, Astraea strives for the demilitarization of the state and dismantling of mechanisms that force people to participate in the military industrial complex in order to access vital resources. We hold these contradictions because it is our responsibility to, and we vow to continue supporting work that does not shy away from paradoxes or nuances, but that seeks solutions that free us from all forms of oppression.
Learn more about the Supreme Court’s decision via the links below:
