Transgender vets want military access for own

Before handcuffing herself to the White House fence, former Petty Officer First Class Autumn Sandeen carefully pinned three rows of Navy ribbons to her chest. Her regulation dress blue skirt, fitted jacket, hat and black pumps were new _ fitting for a woman who spent two decades serving her country as a man.

Sandeen was the only transgender person among the six veterans arrested in April while protesting the military's ban on openly gay troops. But when she watched President Barack Obama last month sign the hard-fought bill allowing for the ban's repeal, melancholy tinged her satisfaction.

"This is another bridesmaid moment for the transgender community," the 51-year-old San Diego resident said.

The "don't ask, don't tell" policy now heading toward history does not apply to transgender recruits, who are automatically disqualified as unfit for service. But the military's long-standing posture on gender-identity has not prevented transgender citizens from signing up before they come out, or from obtaining psychological counseling, hormones and routine health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs once they return to civilian life.

Former Air Force Sgt. Nicole Shounder, 52, who underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1999, has spent the last four years wearing a uniform at sea, first with the Coast Guard auxiliary and now, as a civil service mariner nurse aboard the USNS Robert E Perry, which recently supplied deployments in the Mediterranean.

Shounder considers it a privilege to wear Navy-issued collar brass and shoulder boards.

"Given my circumstances, it really is," she said. "Essentially until someone can say otherwise, I am probably the only out and open post-op transsexual in uniform for the Navy, or as close as you can be."

Sorry, those ribbons and awards were given to whatever man you used to be. Of course there is a train of thought that you are still a man, just a genitally mutilated one.

It seems Shounder's (her/his/it) 15 minutes of fame is premised upon being a self mutilated bizarre exception to reality and a useful idiot for a left that seeks to destroy any moral reference premised upon natural law and God...

Taking a quick look on google I found this:

Pistol-packing proponents of gun-owner tolerance

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Nicole Shounder of Lynnwood is an out and proud, post-operative transsexual lesbian who voted for George W. Bush. The former Air Force sergeant, now a nurse, heads a regional group called Cease Fear. It promotes firearms education and training for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered (GLBT). Her story is part of the upcoming documentary, "Guns and Roses," by Seattle filmmakers Soyon Im and Jhett Bond.
Shounder says, "I'm in sync with Democratic Party values, but their gun-control stance doesn't work. We stand out as possible targets, and we are not going to let harm come to ourselves or our loved ones."

Obviously I am not up to speed on "gender progress" being made by the elite and enlightened left as I have not a clue what a "post-operative transsexual lesbian" is. What is it?

Was he a man lesbian trapped in heterosexual male body or was she a homosexual woman trapped in a heterosexual homosexual lesbian existence?

Hmmm, so much for the born that way theory and the immutable identity theory...

I think myself this person is just mentally disordered...

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