October 2018

[Discuss] SHAFR Council Resolution 1- Doe v. Trump Amicus Brief

SHAFR has been asked to sign on to a historians' amicus brief in a case in federal court challenging the current administration's ban on transgender people in the military.  The brief details the past history of discrimination in the U.S. military on the basis of race, national origin, gender, and homosexuality, and the ways those forms of discrimination have given way to inclusion.  An executive summary of that amicus brief--written by historians Ronit Stahl and Jennifer Mittelstadt--is included below.