A Plea from One Transgender Veteran to not Forget Her CommunityBy Brynn Tannehill | 12 September 2012
http://outservemag.com/2012/09/leave-no-one-behind/One year has passed since the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT), and it is, rightly, a time for celebrating. Service members kicked out under DADT have returned to active duty. The Pentagon held Pride Month ceremonies. Pictures of lesbian and gay service members being greeted by their loved ones after deployment made headlines. Even the Defense of Marriage Act may be swept away in a flood of constitutional scrutiny. All the dire predictions by those opposed to the repeal have failed to materialize, according to a new Palm Center study.
Now, the LGB community carries the burden of ending the exclusion of people like me from service. Transgender people have little power to change the situation from the inside or outside. We try to smile and be happy for the LGB community, but there is still unfinished business.
