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Investigators: U.S. Army discriminated against civilian transgender worker
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Army officials discriminated against a transgender employee who underwent a sex change while working at an Alabama installation, restricting her from the women’s restroom and using her male name despite her preference to be referred to as a woman, a federal investigation found.
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Marine suspected of trans woman’s murder transferred to Philippine custody
MANILA, Philippines — The U.S. military turned over a Marine suspect in the gruesome killing of a transgender Filipino woman to the Philippine military’s main camp in the capital Wednesday, easing a looming irritant over his custody, officials said. Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton had been detained on board the USS Peleliu at the Subic Bay Freeport…
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Soldier of Change: From the closet to the forefront of the gay rights movement
I really hated my life. I hated living like I was in prison. It was hurting my relationship. And it was all so fucking stupid. Was this a “special privilege”? Was this about sex? I was not asking to have sex in the military. If given the chance of a rebuttal after Mr. Santorum answered my question with his “sex has no place in the military” and “gay people want special privileges” rhetoric, I would have told him that story.
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Anti-Gay pundits recycle doomsday DADT rhetoric transgender military service ban
The third anniversary of the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) found the U.S. military intact and stronger than ever. Despite the utter failure of their previous doomsday predictions to materialize, the same voices of opposition to DADT are now making similar prophecies about potential moves to lift the military’s discriminatory ban on transgender …
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Manning sues Defense Dept. for gender treatment
Convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning asked a federal court Tuesday to order the Defense Department to provide hormone therapy and other treatment for her gender identity condition while she serves her 35-year sentence in military confinement.
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Rights of same-sex military spouses still vary by state
Last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act ensured that federal military benefits extend to same-sex partners and their children. But about two-thirds of active-duty personnel in the U.S. are based in states that don’t recognize gay marriages, leaving thousands of military families missing out on legal rights they would enjoy if…
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ACLU petitions U.S. Army to recognize two transgender veterans
TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union wants the U.S. Army to “fully recognize” the new legal names of two New Jersey-based transgender military veterans. The group announced Monday that it submitted two applications to the Defense Department’s Army Review Boards Agency on July 30 on behalf of the two veterans…
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For gay soldiers, marriage and benefits open doors to living life more freely
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — While the military policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the overturning of part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act opened doors more widely to gay people serving openly in the military, it didn’t mark radical changes to the way the fighting force looked or behaved. Instead, it brought the possibility of marriage and spousal benefits to …
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Military to begin initial gender identity treatment for Chelsea Manning
WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Prisons has rejected the Army’s request to accept the transfer of national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning from the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to a civilian facility where she could get better treatment for her gender-identify condition. The military will instead begin the initial treatment for her.
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SF Pride to honor Chelsea Manning, ban National Guard over transgender policy
SAN FRANCISCO — Organizers of San Francisco have banned the National Guard from participating in this year’s festival in response to the military’s ban on openly transgender service members, and instead will celebrate a controversial transgender Army private who leaked military secrets as their honorary grand marshal.