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Title: Women Who Rock: Transgender Veteran, Pam Bennett
Post by: Shana A on October 12, 2010, 08:59:06 AM
Women Who Rock: Transgender Veteran, Pam Bennett

Jenny Inglee

http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/10/11/women-who-rock-transgender-veteran-pam-bennett (http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/10/11/women-who-rock-transgender-veteran-pam-bennett)

The TakePart series "Women Who Rock" will chronicle five women as they head to The White House Project and Participant Media's summit—hosted by Valerie Plame Wilson—FAIR GAME: Women Leaders for Nuclear Security, in Washington, D.C., on October 18 and 19. 

http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/10/11/women-who-rock-transgender-veteran-pam-bennett (http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/10/11/women-who-rock-transgender-veteran-pam-bennett)

Afraid to run for office because you might have a skeleton in the closet?

Pam Bennett has some advice.

"If I can run, you can run," she'll tell you with a laugh. "I am the skeleton in the closet."

Pam is a transgender military veteran and is very active in politics. "It all comes down to accepting yourself," she says.