Transgender Space Force Colonel: ‘I Go to Work Every Day, I Lace Up My Boots, I Put on My Uniform and Leverage My 22 Years of Service’

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>> Barracuda.
>> A new directive.
>> Issued Thursday shows the Pentagon will.
>> Immediately take.
>> Steps to.
>> Remove as many as 1000.
>> Out transgender service members. Pentagon officials previously suggested the total number of transgender troops is much higher. More than 4000. Now, this comes after the Supreme Court’s decision to allow President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military to go forward. Among those affected by the ban is navy commander emily shilling, who sued to block the ban from taking effect. She said in a statement on Instagram Tuesday we are not a theory. We are not a policy debate. We are real people doing real jobs in defense of a nation.
>> We still.
>> Believe in, even when.
>> It struggles.
>> To believe in us. Another affected service member is space force colonel Bree Fram, who told The New York Times in March that she will continue serving, quote, until I.
>> Am.
>> Dragged away. Colonel fram joins us now. She’s here in her personal capacity. Colonel fram, thank you very much for coming to the weekend.
>> It’s a pleasure to.
>> Join you this morning. So the number one question at the outset.
>> Are you.
>> Still in the military? I am.
>> I go to work every day. I lace up my boots.
>> I put on my uniform and leverage my 22 years of service to help define and develop our space.
>> Force’s next. Generation capabilities.
>> That we’re going to need to fight and win far into the future.
>> Colonel.
>> You have.
>> Been in the military for two decades. In those two decades, just to be clear, have you ever gotten any special. Treatment because. You’re trans?
>> You can look at.
>> My performance.
>> Reports, and every year there’s a block check that.
>> Says meets standards.
>> And you can do the same.
>> For.
>> Just about any transgender.
>> Service member.
>> And you will see that meet standards or.
>> Exceed standards.
>> And so.
>> There is.
>> Same as everyone else. There is.
>> A standard.
>> We all have to meet. Exactly. And there are gates along the