SLDN's Latest Appeal to Congress Still Leaves Transgender Veterans Out
August 27th, 2008
by Monica F. Helms
http://www.monicahelms.com/blog/veterans/sldns-latest-appeal-to-congress-still-leaves-transgender-veterans-out.htm#more-215I just received an "Action Alert" from the Servicesmembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) asking me and others to send a letter to our local newspapers and the national newspapers on stating the need to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) supports this repeal and has since Day One of our existence. We knew back then that transgender people were being kicked out under DADT, but did not have the proof until this year with the survey we did.
I included the Action Alert SLDN sent me after my comments. When you click onto their link, it takes you to a place where you fill out various pieces of information and it then sends you to a pre-written letter to send off to those newspapers. You can change the words in the letter. If you read down in the letter, you will see near the end it says, "gay, lesbian and bisexual service members." When I saw that, I added the word "transgender" in that list and sent it out with that minor change. Afterwards, I sent a response to Aubrey Sarvis at SLDN telling him what I did.
