The UT Austin student is raising funds to cover tuition now that he has been disqualified from military service.
A student attending the University of Texas at Austin on a three-year Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarship may have to withdraw and transfer to a community college after being disqualified from military service — because he is a transgender man.As Austin’s KVUE reports, UT freshman Map Pesqueira will lose out on the scholarship because of the newly instituted ban on transgender people, and those with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, from serving in the U.S. military.
Pesqueira received the scholarship, which would go into effect at the start of his sophomore year at UT, as a senior in high school. He started transitioning in 2018, and has been on hormone replacement therapy for the last 15 months; recently, he legally changed his name and gender identification, and underwent top surgery. But in January 2019 the Supreme Court determined that the Department of Defense’s proposed transgender ban could take place, putting his scholarship at risk.
He is unable to be “grandfathered” in to save the scholarship, and efforts by his professor of military science to help were unsuccessful. “Since my scholarship is now invalid, I can no longer afford to attend without financial assistance,” he wrote on GoFundMe. “I received little financial aid from the university despite having a single mother with a low income and struggled to pay my own way through my first year. Until now, I remained under the impression that my scholarship would take care of my remaining three years, but that is no longer the case.
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