Trans Discharge Appeal Nixed

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Gay City News
By: ARTHUR S. LEONARD
07/12/2007

Joanne DeGroat, a woman dismissed from the Air Force with the rank of major in 1989 for being transsexual, suffered a setback in her legal battle challenging her discharge on July 5 when a federal judge in Ohio ruled that the district court there could not provide any remedy.

Judge Walter Herbert Rice's decision, issued more than 10 years after the parties submitted their motions for summary judgment, fully accepted the Air Force's argument that post-operative transsexuals should not be employed in that service branch.