Saying that it’s been a struggle for the LGBT community to find equal rights is somewhat of a gross understatement. Marriage equality was only achieved in 2016 and that was only after years of protests and marches and a Supreme Court vote. The LGBT community overcame adversity in Nazi, Germany and claimed their trophies in the form of the pink triangles that used to represent oppression. When this triangle was worn during the Homosexuelle Aktion Wetberlin pride organization directly after the liberation of gay men in Germany, it started a movement that spanned from that moment in October of 1973 to this very second. So then how is it now a fact that trans men and women are no longer allowed to fight in the United States military? Is it ok that years of struggles are going to be thrown to the side and all sense of change in a matter of days? Using such rhetorical devices as kairos, pathos, and logos, I want to analyze what kind of thoughts could have gone into making such a decision that undoes what years of history have worked so hard to bring about.