In a First, Openly Transgender Service Member Promoted

by Fiona Dawson

http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/first-openly-transgender-service-member-promoted-n648366

Just two and a half months ago, as NBC OUT exclusively reported, Navy Lt. Cdr. Blake Dremann was one of four service members historically stepping out of Secretary of Defense Ash Carter's office a week prior to the announcement ending the ban on transgender troops. Then at a ceremony last Friday, Dremann became the first known openly transgender service member promoted since that repeal. To top it off, everyone on his promotion stage was transgender.

Flanked by the American, Navy and Senior Executive Service flags, wearing his male summer whites and surrounded by his parents, family, friends, admirals, officers and representatives from a number of advocacy groups, Dremann stood to attention at the front of the President's Room at the Navy Memorial.
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Yaaaaaay

and . . . Beat Navy! [emoji12]

That's pretty cool... Lt. Cdr's the first serious cut if I recall correctly.  They could easily have just passed him over for no particularly good reason and I doubt anyone could have said anything.    Seems to me they want to get out in front of this moving target in order to shape perception.

Course the morons will just say he was promoted to make a point; but you start to have some real authority at that level... 

definitively a good start.

I am confident that he was promoted solely on his own merits. It's good that being trans was no longer a barrier