Persephone Smith is a 46-year-old veteran, who served in the Navy special forces as an Explosive Ordinance Disposal technician. She's also a transgender woman.
Smith is running for the City Council in Brooklyn.
Yesterday Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin was out and about and was asked about Trump's transgender tweet (can't call it a ban in its present state). He claimed that the VA has compassion for transgender veterans.
If anyone -- transgender people included -- serves in the military, they will get medical and other care for life.
On Monday Tee Tee Dangerfield, a 32-year-old Atlanta resident became the sixteenth transgender person known to be murdered this year. Dangerfield was found in her car near an apartment complex in College Park suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital but did not survive.
Last Wednesday night, as the vote on "skinny repeal" was ongoing, Kirstin Gilliland was seen working the chamber to get signatories to a letter she had written. She got 45 of them, 44 democrats plus Susan Collins.
Alex Wagner is the former chief of staff to the 22nd secretary of the Army. He teaches a course at Georgetown Law on LGBTQ issues and is a fellow at the Truman National Security Project.
Wagner writes today at Slate: Trump’s Trans Troops Ban Would Require a Cruel and Exorbitantly Expensive Witch Hunt
Dr. Christine McGinn was senior flight surgeon at the Willow Grove Naval Air Station, north of Philadelphia. Once upon a time she was flight surgeon for two NASA space shuttle missions.
She was interviewed by Michael Smerconish on CNN.
McGinn transitioned beginning in 2000. She now operates the Papillon Center in New Hope, PA, which offers comprehensive gender reassignment services.
Researchers in Minnesota have found that 2.7% of students in the state identify as transgender or gender-nonconforming. That is a surprisingly high percentage.
Trump's trial transgender ban has blocked a lot of other news of the transgender community from view lately.
In southern Mississippi former navy sailor Dwanya Hickerson pleaded guilty to murdering Dee Whigham, a transgender nurse, in order to avoid the death penalty.
Forces seem to think that the presence of transgender troops is disruptive and medical treatment of transgender troops is too costly.
I don't get up early enough to get a jump on the Bigot-in-Chief. That would not happen even if I lived on the East Coast instead of here in Southern California.
