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DADT repeal efforts ignore transgender service members and veterans

By Edward SanFilippo

Justin Tanis [Community Education and Outreach Manager, National Center for Transgender Equality]: "The military's discriminatory Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy applies only to the sexual orientation of servicemembers and has no direct application to transgender people. However, transgender people have been impacted by the regulations and discharged under the policy when investigators assume that gender non-conforming clothing or behavior signifies a lesbian or gay sexual orientation. The US Military continues to discriminate against transgender people, barring them from enlisting and discharging them if they are serving. In a 2009 study of 6,450 transgender people ("National Transgender Discrimination Survey," conducted by The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on November 11, 2010 (boomark / email).