Discharged Soldier Wants DADT Repeal To Include Transgender
POSTED: 3:00 pm EDT September 27, 2011
http://www.wlky.com/r/29317909/detail.htmlLOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Less than two weeks before the U.S. military repealed its "don't ask don't tell" policy, an Army National Guard veteran received her official discharge papers for being transgender. Now, she hopes to change military policy.
Staff Sgt. Rebecca Grant was involved in tours in Iraq and Bosnia and received many honors for her 12 years of service. Last April, she said she was outed by a fellow soldier who passed around pictures he found of her wearing a dress. Grant said that's when things went downhill.
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Fairness Campaign Spotlights Discharge of Transgender Soldier
Phillip M. Bailey September 27, 2011
http://www.wfpl.org/2011/09/27/fairness-campaign-spotlights-discharge-of-transgender-soldier/The Louisville Fairness Campaign is drawing attention to the exclusion of gender identity from the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and a soldier who was discharged for being transgender.
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Staff Sergeant Rebecca Grant was discharged from the Army National Guard after serving for over a decade. She did tours of duty overseas, including Bosnia and Iraq.
In 2009, a fellow soldier revealed that Grant is transgender, and she was officially kicked out of the military two weeks before the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" this month.
