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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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Breitbart columnist asks: Have they cut Chelsea Manning’s penis off yet?
A Breitbart.com columnist launched a transphobic attack on transgender former Army Private Chelsea Manning, calling her a “traitorous transsexual” and asking if the government had “cut it off yet.” In a September 16 column for Breitbart London, columnist Milo Yiannopoulos attacked Manning – who was convicted in 2013 of leaking classified documents …
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Lambda Legal sues Veterans Affairs over denial of benefits for same-sex spouses
WASHINGTON — A leading LGBT advocacy group has filed suit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, arguing that the denial of benefits to same-sex spouses of veterans living in states that refuse to recognize their marriages is in violation of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act.
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Attorney: Manning not being provided approved hormone therapy
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning isn’t receiving medical treatment for her gender identity condition as previously approved by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, the American Civil Liberties Union and Manning’s attorney said Tuesday. The ACLU and Manning’s civilian attorney, David E. Coombs, on Tuesday notified …
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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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First openly gay commander takes helm at Nat’l Air and Space Intelligence Center
DAYTON, Ohio — The first openly gay commander of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center has taken over the top leadership post of the secretive agency that provides intelligence reports to the White House, Congress and ground troops in combat.
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Same-sex military spouses to receive in-state tuition at UNC
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — The University of North Carolina system has directed that in-state tuition be charged to the same-sex spouses of military personnel as long as the couple married in a state that recognizes same-sex marriage.
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For a lost soldier…
Every year that I have lived and worked in this city I have always gone to Arlington National Cemetery to observe the Memorial Day ceremonies. Afterwards, I wander down through the grounds, just to watch, maybe to listen, but mostly to contemplate on the sacrifices made by those brave souls whose final resting place has become hallowed ground, a literal garden of stones. Arlington’s rolling hills are a place of extraordinary beauty, a fitting repository for the memory of the living history of the United States. Names from the history books leap off the pages as one strolls through the grounds…