Tamara Nassar is a spring 2017 In These Times editorial intern.
Jake Valente is an independent editor, academic publisher, and writer.
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Transgender People Are Not a ‘Burden’: The Massive Military Budget Is
Instead of looking to the U.S. military to preserve our rights, we should be dismantling it.
Tamara Nassar and Jake Valente