UA Episode 07 Katie Schmid Unauthorized Absence

Amber talks with Cathrine “Katie” Schmid, an active duty transgender woman who is currently a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration ban on transgender military members. https://www.lambdalegal.org/in-court/cases/karnoski-v-trump

Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XbJ7F1bhD-YjwNWBVx2blg1oGMhSIvif/view?usp=sharing

Seattle Met article: https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2017/10/20/meet-the-trans-jblm-soldier-who-s-suing-trump

Trump’s July 2017 tweets: https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/26/politics/trump-military-transgender/index.html

Palm Center report: https://www.palmcenter.org/publication/report-of-the-transgender-military-service-commission/

Organizations mentioned:
SPART*A: https://spartapride.org/

OutServe-SLDN: https://www.outserve-sldn.org/

Lambda Legal: https://www.lambdalegal.org/

TAVA: http://transveteran.org/

Minority Veterans of America: https://minorityvets.org/

Gender Justice League: https://www.genderjusticeleague.org/

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