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• THE TRANSGENR MILARY HERO SERVE THEIR COUNTRI PROUDLYLEARSHIPBEFORE IATG HIS BAN, PRINT TMP MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW THAT TRANSGENR PEOPLE ARE VALUED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORC UNTRI WHERE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO SERVE OPENLY.TOM SYKROYALIST CORRPONNTUPDATED JUL. 27, 2017 1:44PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 27, 2017 1:01PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTIF--AND ’S STILL A BIG IF, WH A WELTER OF URT S EXPECTED--PRINT TMP’S TWEETED DIKTAT THAT TRANSGENR PEOPLE WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO SERVE THE US ARY BE LAW, THE MOVE WILL PROVE TO BE AN ASTONISHG ACT OF NATNAL SELF-HARM.TMP’S BRIEFLY STATED ARGUMENT SUGGTED THAT THE PRENCE OF TRANSGENR TROOPS A ARY SETTG WOULD RENR THE ARMY LS PABLE OF FOCG ON “CISIVE AND OVERWHELMG VICTORY” BEE OF THE “TREMENDO MEDIL STS AND DISPTN THAT TRANSGENR THE ARY WOULD ENTAIL.”HOWEVER, THE EXPERIENCE OF MANY OTHER NATNAL ARMI THAT EXPLICLY ALLOW TRANSGENR TROOPS FLI THE FACE OF TMP’S ASSERTNS.FROM CANADA TO THE U.K., OM SWEN TO ATRALIA, TRANS TROOPS OCCUPY BOTH ENTRY-LEVEL AND SENR POSNS, AND MANY OF THEM HAVE WON THE ADMIRATN AND RPECT OF THEIR LLEAGU FOR THEIR PROFSNALISM AND BRAVERY. CANADATHE CANADIAN ARY WAS QUICK TO RPOND TO PRINT TMP’S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT TRANSGENR PEOPLE WOULD BE BANNED OM THE US ARY, WH A TWEET OM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORC’ OFFICIAL TWTER ACUNT CLUDG A PHOTO OF ARY BAND MEMBERS MARCHG A PARA WH RABOW FLAGS FLUTTERG OM THEIR STMENTS.CANADA END S BAN ON LGBT PERSONNEL THE ARY 1992 AND HAS SEVERAL PROMENT TRANSGENR ARY HERO WHO SPEAK OPENLY ABOUT THEIR LIFE AS TRANSGENR PEOPLE THE ARY TO HELP RISE AWARENS AND ACCEPTANCE.ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED IS CPL. VCENT LAMARRE, A VETERAN OF THE WAR AFGHANISTAN, WHO WAS ASSIGNED FEMALE AT BIRTH. LAMARRE WAS PLOYED TO SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN’S PANJWAII REGN 2010, DRIVG A TCK SUPPLYG GASOLE, AMMUNN AND FOOD DOWN A HAZARDO HIGHWAY, THROUGH ENEMY TERRA.BY 2016, LAMARRE HAD BEE THE FIRST CANADIAN SOLDIER TO FULLY TRANSN.CANADA’S MOST SENR TRANSGENR SOLDIER IS LT.-CMDR. NILE LASSALE.SHE TOLD A 2014 NFERENCE THAT MANY OF THE PERCEIVED BARRIERS TO ACMODATG TRANS PEOPLE THE ARY ARE EASILY ROLVABLE.SHE SAID: “ONE OF THE THGS PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY IS, ‘OH, TRANSGENR PEOPLE, OH MY! HOW DO YOU AL WH BATHROOMS?’ HOW MUCH DO ST TO PUT A CURTA A SHOWER CUBICLE?”ANOTHER VOL ADVOTE FOR TRANS RIGHTS THE CANADIAN ARY IS CPL. NATALIE MURRAY. MURRAY, WHO BEGAN HER TRANSN 2003, WAS PLOYED TO BOSNIA. SHE HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN ARMED FORC FOR 27 YEARS AND IS A RADAR TECHNICIAN.U.K.THE BRISH ARMY IS ONE OF THE MOST TRANS-IENDLY THE WORLD. IT WAS NAMED ON UK GAY RIGHTS ADVOCY GROUP STONEWALL’S TOP 100 EMPLOYERS 2014 LIST, AND THE MISTRY OF DEFENSE HAS EQUENTLY MONSTRATED S SUPPORT FOR TRANS RIGHTS, AT ONE POT CLARG: “THE ARMED FORC WANT TO REPRENT THE BREADTH OF THE SOCIETY WE SERVE AND WE SUPPORT ALL OF OUR PERSONNEL, CLUDG THOSE NSIRG GENR REASSIGNMENT, BY OFFERG THEM THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF RE AND ADVICE.”THE POLICY HAS SEEN A 24-YEAR-OLD TRANSGENR SOLDIER BEE THE FIRST WOMAN TO SERVE ON THE ONT LE WH THE BRISH ARMY, EVEN THOUGH WOMEN ARE NOT GENERALLY EXPECTED TO BE ENROLLED ONT LE BAT ROL UNTIL 2018. CHLOE ALLEN, OM CUMBRIA, JOED THE STS GUARDS 2012, BEGAN HORMONE THERAPY, AND CHANGED HER NAME 2016. GUARDSMAN ALLEN (THE TLE IS NON-DISCRIMATORY), WHO HAD OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS CHANGED BY ED POLL OM HER BIRTH NAME OF BEN TO REFLECT HER NEW NAME AND STAT, WAS ALLOWED TO STAY THE FANTRY AS A WOMAN.THE MOST SENR TRANS SOLDIER THE UK ARMY IS CAPTA HANNAH WTERBOURNE, WHO HAS SPOKEN ABOUT HER TRANSN AND ACTS AS A MENTOR FOR OTHER TRANSGENR SOLDIERS.WARRANT OFFICER CLASS 2 DEBORAH PENNY WAS THE FIRST SOLDIER TO HAVE TRANSN OM MALE TO FEMALE TO SERVE A WARZONE (SHE SERVED AFGHANISTAN 2014) BRISH ARMY HISTORY.THE BOMB DISPOSAL EXPERT HAS SERVED THE ARMY FOR 30 YEARS.A HIGH-RANKG ARMY SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY MAIL: “DEBBIE IS WORKG A MALE ORIENTATED WORLD AND HAS SHOWN URAGE CIDG TO CHANGE HER LIFE SUCH A DRAMATIC MANNER AND STILL PURSUE HER REER A MACHO WORLD.”IN 2008 JAN HATON BEME THE FIRST UK OFFICER TO PLETE GENR REASSIGNMENT OM MALE TO FEMALE.SWENSWEN WAS ONE OF THE FIRST NATNS THE WORLD TO ACTIVELY ALLOW LGBT PEOPLE TO SERVE S ARY, AND STAT AS A MATTER OF POLICY THAT WORKS FOR AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE DIVIDUALS DO NOT FEEL TO BE NECSARY TO HI THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY.ONE OF THE MOST PROMENT ADVOT FOR TRANS RIGHTS THE SWEDISH ARMED FORC IS MAJOR ALEXANDRA LARSSON, AN TELLIGENCE OFFICER AT A FIGHTER SQUADRON, WHO GAVE A MEMORABLE TED TALK ON HER PERSONAL JOURNEY. AFTER FELLOW SOLDIERS DISVERED HER INTY ON ONLE BLOGS, SHE ME OUT AND HELPED FOUND THE FIRST LGBT WORK THE SWEDISH ARMY. SHE LIV STOCKHOLM AND IS CURRENTLY TECH LEAD FOR THE CONCEPT SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENCE & SECURY THE ARMED FORC.ATRALIAMAJOR DONNA HARDG JOED THE ATRALIAN RERVE FORC 2000 BEFORE ENTERG THE REGULAR ARMY 2004. SHE HAS SAID THAT SHE "LIVED UNR THE NSTANT ANXIETY AND FEAR THAT SOMEONE WOULD FD OUT MY SECRET." SHE SAID THAT JOG THE ATRALIAN ARMY WAS A BID TO TRY TO SUPPRS WHAT SHE HAD KNOWN OM AN EARLY AGE."IT'S QUE A MON PATHWAY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE GENR NFLICTED, TRYG TO FIX WHAT WE SEE IS WRONG WH , AND SEE THE ARY AS THE WAY OF DOG THAT," MAJOR HARDG SAID AT A NFERENCE ANIZED BY THE ACLU.LITENANT COLONEL CATE MCGREGOR IS THE HIGHT RANKG PERSON SERVG THE ATRALIAN DEFENSE FORCE. SHE IS ALSO A WELL-KNOWN CRICKET WRER.NEW ZEALANDNEW ZEALAND'S ARY WAS RANKED THE MOST CLIVE THE WORLD ACRDG TO A 2014 REPORT ON LGBT ARY PERSONNEL OM THE HAGUE CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC STUDI. IN 2012, THE NEW ZEALAND DEFENSE FORCE CREATED OVERWATCH, A PROGRAM SIGNED TO PROVI SUPPORT TO LGBT PERSONNEL.SERGEANT LUCY JORDAN IS BELIEVED TO BE THE FIRST PERSON THE NEW ZEALAND DEFENSE FORC TO TRANSN WHILE SERVG. SHE PRAISED THE SUPPORT GIVEN BY HER MANDG OFFICERS AT THE TIME, SAYG: "WHAT MY ANIZATN GAVE ME, AND WHAT WE ARE DOG HERE, IS PRIMARILY ABOUT VTG THE MOST IMPORTANT THG THAT AN ANIZATN HAS: S PEOPLE."ISRAELISRAEL HAS NSISTENTLY MONSTRATED A SUPPORTIVE ATTU TO TRANSGENR TROOPS, ALLOWG THEM TO SERVE SCE 1993. THE MOST SENR TRANS SOLDIER IS SHACHAR EREZ, THE FIRST TRANSGENR OFFICER THE IDF.HE HAS BEEN AN IMPORTANT ADVOTE FOR TRANSGENR RIGHTS FOR ARY PERSONNEL. EREZ TRAVELLED TO CANADA APRIL 2017 AND MET WH SENR CANADIAN FORC OFFICIALS TO DISCS CANADA'S POLICI ON TRANSGENR ISSU THE ARY.EREZ, 23, ME OUT AS TRANSGENR WHEN HE WAS 16 TO IENDS AND FAY BUT ONLY ME OUT TO HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS AT THE END OF HIS MANR’S URSE, TWO YEARS AFTER BEGNG HIS ARMY SERVICE. HE WAS THE FIRST TRANSGENR PERSON TO BEE AN OFFICER THE IDF. THE IDF PAID FOR HORMON AND TREATMENT. TOM SYK
• "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS

THE TRANSGENR MILARY HERO SERVE THEIR COUNTRI PROUDLYLEARSHIPBEFORE IATG HIS BAN, PRINT TMP MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW THAT TRANSGENR PEOPLE ARE VALUED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORC UNTRI WHERE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO SERVE OPENLY.TOM SYKROYALIST CORRPONNTUPDATED JUL. 27, 2017 1:44PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 27, 2017 1:01PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTIF--AND ’S STILL A BIG IF, WH A WELTER OF URT S EXPECTED--PRINT TMP’S TWEETED DIKTAT THAT TRANSGENR PEOPLE WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO SERVE THE US ARY BE LAW, THE MOVE WILL PROVE TO BE AN ASTONISHG ACT OF NATNAL SELF-HARM.TMP’S BRIEFLY STATED ARGUMENT SUGGTED THAT THE PRENCE OF TRANSGENR TROOPS A ARY SETTG WOULD RENR THE ARMY LS PABLE OF FOCG ON “CISIVE AND OVERWHELMG VICTORY” BEE OF THE “TREMENDO MEDIL STS AND DISPTN THAT TRANSGENR THE ARY WOULD ENTAIL.”HOWEVER, THE EXPERIENCE OF MANY OTHER NATNAL ARMI THAT EXPLICLY ALLOW TRANSGENR TROOPS FLI THE FACE OF TMP’S ASSERTNS.FROM CANADA TO THE U.K., OM SWEN TO ATRALIA, TRANS TROOPS OCCUPY BOTH ENTRY-LEVEL AND SENR POSNS, AND MANY OF THEM HAVE WON THE ADMIRATN AND RPECT OF THEIR LLEAGU FOR THEIR PROFSNALISM AND BRAVERY. CANADATHE CANADIAN ARY WAS QUICK TO RPOND TO PRINT TMP’S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT TRANSGENR PEOPLE WOULD BE BANNED OM THE US ARY, WH A TWEET OM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORC’ OFFICIAL TWTER ACUNT CLUDG A PHOTO OF ARY BAND MEMBERS MARCHG A PARA WH RABOW FLAGS FLUTTERG OM THEIR STMENTS.CANADA END S BAN ON LGBT PERSONNEL THE ARY 1992 AND HAS SEVERAL PROMENT TRANSGENR ARY HERO WHO SPEAK OPENLY ABOUT THEIR LIFE AS TRANSGENR PEOPLE THE ARY TO HELP RISE AWARENS AND ACCEPTANCE.ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED IS CPL. VCENT LAMARRE, A VETERAN OF THE WAR AFGHANISTAN, WHO WAS ASSIGNED FEMALE AT BIRTH. LAMARRE WAS PLOYED TO SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN’S PANJWAII REGN 2010, DRIVG A TCK SUPPLYG GASOLE, AMMUNN AND FOOD DOWN A HAZARDO HIGHWAY, THROUGH ENEMY TERRA.BY 2016, LAMARRE HAD BEE THE FIRST CANADIAN SOLDIER TO FULLY TRANSN.CANADA’S MOST SENR TRANSGENR SOLDIER IS LT.-CMDR. NILE LASSALE.SHE TOLD A 2014 NFERENCE THAT MANY OF THE PERCEIVED BARRIERS TO ACMODATG TRANS PEOPLE THE ARY ARE EASILY ROLVABLE.SHE SAID: “ONE OF THE THGS PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY IS, ‘OH, TRANSGENR PEOPLE, OH MY! HOW DO YOU AL WH BATHROOMS?’ HOW MUCH DO ST TO PUT A CURTA A SHOWER CUBICLE?”ANOTHER VOL ADVOTE FOR TRANS RIGHTS THE CANADIAN ARY IS CPL. NATALIE MURRAY. MURRAY, WHO BEGAN HER TRANSN 2003, WAS PLOYED TO BOSNIA. SHE HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN ARMED FORC FOR 27 YEARS AND IS A RADAR TECHNICIAN.U.K.THE BRISH ARMY IS ONE OF THE MOST TRANS-IENDLY THE WORLD. IT WAS NAMED ON UK GAY RIGHTS ADVOCY GROUP STONEWALL’S TOP 100 EMPLOYERS 2014 LIST, AND THE MISTRY OF DEFENSE HAS EQUENTLY MONSTRATED S SUPPORT FOR TRANS RIGHTS, AT ONE POT CLARG: “THE ARMED FORC WANT TO REPRENT THE BREADTH OF THE SOCIETY WE SERVE AND WE SUPPORT ALL OF OUR PERSONNEL, CLUDG THOSE NSIRG GENR REASSIGNMENT, BY OFFERG THEM THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF RE AND ADVICE.”THE POLICY HAS SEEN A 24-YEAR-OLD TRANSGENR SOLDIER BEE THE FIRST WOMAN TO SERVE ON THE ONT LE WH THE BRISH ARMY, EVEN THOUGH WOMEN ARE NOT GENERALLY EXPECTED TO BE ENROLLED ONT LE BAT ROL UNTIL 2018. CHLOE ALLEN, OM CUMBRIA, JOED THE STS GUARDS 2012, BEGAN HORMONE THERAPY, AND CHANGED HER NAME 2016. GUARDSMAN ALLEN (THE TLE IS NON-DISCRIMATORY), WHO HAD OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS CHANGED BY ED POLL OM HER BIRTH NAME OF BEN TO REFLECT HER NEW NAME AND STAT, WAS ALLOWED TO STAY THE FANTRY AS A WOMAN.THE MOST SENR TRANS SOLDIER THE UK ARMY IS CAPTA HANNAH WTERBOURNE, WHO HAS SPOKEN ABOUT HER TRANSN AND ACTS AS A MENTOR FOR OTHER TRANSGENR SOLDIERS.WARRANT OFFICER CLASS 2 DEBORAH PENNY WAS THE FIRST SOLDIER TO HAVE TRANSN OM MALE TO FEMALE TO SERVE A WARZONE (SHE SERVED AFGHANISTAN 2014) BRISH ARMY HISTORY.THE BOMB DISPOSAL EXPERT HAS SERVED THE ARMY FOR 30 YEARS.A HIGH-RANKG ARMY SOURCE TOLD THE DAILY MAIL: “DEBBIE IS WORKG A MALE ORIENTATED WORLD AND HAS SHOWN URAGE CIDG TO CHANGE HER LIFE SUCH A DRAMATIC MANNER AND STILL PURSUE HER REER A MACHO WORLD.”IN 2008 JAN HATON BEME THE FIRST UK OFFICER TO PLETE GENR REASSIGNMENT OM MALE TO FEMALE.SWENSWEN WAS ONE OF THE FIRST NATNS THE WORLD TO ACTIVELY ALLOW LGBT PEOPLE TO SERVE S ARY, AND STAT AS A MATTER OF POLICY THAT WORKS FOR AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE DIVIDUALS DO NOT FEEL TO BE NECSARY TO HI THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY.ONE OF THE MOST PROMENT ADVOT FOR TRANS RIGHTS THE SWEDISH ARMED FORC IS MAJOR ALEXANDRA LARSSON, AN TELLIGENCE OFFICER AT A FIGHTER SQUADRON, WHO GAVE A MEMORABLE TED TALK ON HER PERSONAL JOURNEY. AFTER FELLOW SOLDIERS DISVERED HER INTY ON ONLE BLOGS, SHE ME OUT AND HELPED FOUND THE FIRST LGBT WORK THE SWEDISH ARMY. SHE LIV STOCKHOLM AND IS CURRENTLY TECH LEAD FOR THE CONCEPT SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENCE & SECURY THE ARMED FORC.ATRALIAMAJOR DONNA HARDG JOED THE ATRALIAN RERVE FORC 2000 BEFORE ENTERG THE REGULAR ARMY 2004. SHE HAS SAID THAT SHE "LIVED UNR THE NSTANT ANXIETY AND FEAR THAT SOMEONE WOULD FD OUT MY SECRET." SHE SAID THAT JOG THE ATRALIAN ARMY WAS A BID TO TRY TO SUPPRS WHAT SHE HAD KNOWN OM AN EARLY AGE."IT'S QUE A MON PATHWAY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE GENR NFLICTED, TRYG TO FIX WHAT WE SEE IS WRONG WH , AND SEE THE ARY AS THE WAY OF DOG THAT," MAJOR HARDG SAID AT A NFERENCE ANIZED BY THE ACLU.LITENANT COLONEL CATE MCGREGOR IS THE HIGHT RANKG PERSON SERVG THE ATRALIAN DEFENSE FORCE. SHE IS ALSO A WELL-KNOWN CRICKET WRER.NEW ZEALANDNEW ZEALAND'S ARY WAS RANKED THE MOST CLIVE THE WORLD ACRDG TO A 2014 REPORT ON LGBT ARY PERSONNEL OM THE HAGUE CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC STUDI. IN 2012, THE NEW ZEALAND DEFENSE FORCE CREATED OVERWATCH, A PROGRAM SIGNED TO PROVI SUPPORT TO LGBT PERSONNEL.SERGEANT LUCY JORDAN IS BELIEVED TO BE THE FIRST PERSON THE NEW ZEALAND DEFENSE FORC TO TRANSN WHILE SERVG. SHE PRAISED THE SUPPORT GIVEN BY HER MANDG OFFICERS AT THE TIME, SAYG: "WHAT MY ANIZATN GAVE ME, AND WHAT WE ARE DOG HERE, IS PRIMARILY ABOUT VTG THE MOST IMPORTANT THG THAT AN ANIZATN HAS: S PEOPLE."ISRAELISRAEL HAS NSISTENTLY MONSTRATED A SUPPORTIVE ATTU TO TRANSGENR TROOPS, ALLOWG THEM TO SERVE SCE 1993. THE MOST SENR TRANS SOLDIER IS SHACHAR EREZ, THE FIRST TRANSGENR OFFICER THE IDF.HE HAS BEEN AN IMPORTANT ADVOTE FOR TRANSGENR RIGHTS FOR ARY PERSONNEL. EREZ TRAVELLED TO CANADA APRIL 2017 AND MET WH SENR CANADIAN FORC OFFICIALS TO DISCS CANADA'S POLICI ON TRANSGENR ISSU THE ARY.EREZ, 23, ME OUT AS TRANSGENR WHEN HE WAS 16 TO IENDS AND FAY BUT ONLY ME OUT TO HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS AT THE END OF HIS MANR’S URSE, TWO YEARS AFTER BEGNG HIS ARMY SERVICE. HE WAS THE FIRST TRANSGENR PERSON TO BEE AN OFFICER THE IDF. THE IDF PAID FOR HORMON AND TREATMENT. TOM SYK

Many of our LGBTQ service members have given their liv for , like one of the first gay ary hero, Litenant Colonel John Lrens, who served durg the Amerin Revolutn. This Memorial Day weekend, we’re takg time to memorate the liv and ntributns of LGBTQ+ service members, those who fought for our untry while fightg the stigma that me wh “servg while gay.

“Servg while gay” wasn’t technilly forbidn until 1982, when the Reagan admistratn enacted a policy explicly banng gay men and lbians om the armed forc. At 33, Pssian soldier Friedrich von Stben had served as ai mp to Frerick the Great, who was mored to be gay.

What the world didn’t know, until 2010 and after his ath, was that Bernste was the thor of a 149-page unpublished mancript tled Millns of Queers (Our Homo Ameri), wrten the same year he enlisted. Disvered by a rearcher at the Natnal Library of Medice, the say anticipated semal arguments years later fendg homosexualy.

"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS

He was founr of famo “homophile” s the League for Civil Edutn and the Society for Individual Rights. He also found — wh his assumptn of the tl José I, Emprs and Widow Norton — the Imperial Court System, the natnwi gay charable anizatn that ntu to thrive today.

He was active the early gay liberatn movement and a lear of the Haight-Ashbury unterculture. Kay Tob / New York Public Library LGBTQ pneer Frank Kameny, wh his “Gay is Good” sign, marchg durg the 1970 Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day, New York Cy. In 1957, at the height of the Cold War and the rrpondg Lavenr Sre, Kameny was fired and banned om feral employment bee he was gay, along wh over 10, 000 other LGBTQ+ people the ernment who were forced om their jobs the 1950s and 60s.