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What Would The Repeal Of DADT Mean For Transgender Servicemembers?

Started by Shana A, December 03, 2010, 10:28:58 AM

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What Would The Repeal Of DADT Mean For Transgender Servicemembers?
by: Autumn Sandeen
Fri Dec 03, 2010 at 11:00:00 AM EST

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/18137/what-would-the-repeal-of-dadt-mean-for-transgender-servicemembers

I don't have to look too far to see that I've personally become a lightning rod regarding the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Basically, I've become the personification for fear-mongering over the idea that repeal of DADT will either immediately, or eventually, result in transgender people being able to serve openly in the military services. As I highlighted in yesterday's diary (entitled FRC's DADT Press Conference: Just Call Me "Or Something"), to Frank Gaffney of the Center For Security Policy  -- and apparently of the Family Research Council (FRC) as well -- I am the answer to the question "What's wrong with this picture?" From the FRC's November 30, 2010 DADT press conference (at about the 33-minute mark of the press conference video):
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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