military through the theater of inclusion earlier we were joined by writer academic and activist yasmeen amir who co-wrote the piece inclusion in the atrocious with the l.a. mafia for current affairs magazine which challenges the fight for trans equality in the military we started by asking yasmin america how equality has been used by institutions around the world to soften their more monstrous crime. so the article. and i read is about it is a critique on the issue of transgender inclusion of the military and has to be clear when north saying that no one should fight for inclusion what we are asking as people who come from the left and have had long you know the left has had a long storied history of crude. of militarism what we are asking is what is the cost of inclusion for transport people so what we're really saying is the idea of inclusion is a lovely one but what are the politics of inclusion what is the price of inclusion the transgender people pay and the other issue that we raised was that the the agitation for inclusion of transgender people in the military was not something that c