Transgender Veteran Makes History

[Shana A]

Monday, November 24, 2008    Transgender Veteran Makes History   
By Monica F. Helms, Angela Brightfeather and Allyson Robinson[/]
Monica Helms:  A few months back, the Transgender American Veterans Association's Organizational Liaison, Paula Dee Wright, received a communication from Dr. Judy Rosenstein, civilian instructor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United  States Military Academy at West Point.  Dr. Rosenstein teaches Social Inequality, a sociology elective, and she asked to have a transgender veteran come and speak to her class.
You can imagine how we felt being presented with the opportunity to speak at the oldest military academy in the United States.  Some of our most famous military figures in this country's history have walked its halls.  Never in its 206-year history has an openly transgender person been invited to speak to the cadets, so the invitation to TAVA was a first.[/]