It’s wrong in so many ways.

Transgender service members have served in our military just as well as anyone else, and in some cases better. They are just as excellent in protecting us as anyone, and they are getting fired from the military because of ignorance and fear. We are shooting ourselves by firing them.

Example: COL Bree Fram

Her story is publicly published on her website: https://www.breefram.com/about-me

Clip from her public FB Post: “The colonel next to me asked where I was going. I let him know that I didn’t meet the current standard for “Military Excellence and Readiness” and would be departing on administrative leave.”

Who is she? Why is she now all of a sudden “not meeting the standards?”

Clip from her website: “Bree Fram (she/her) is an astronautical engineer, author, podcaster, speaker, and active duty colonel in the United States Space Force. She is currently stationed at the Pentagon where she develops the requirements for future Space Force capabilities.

​Prior to recommissioning into the Space Force in 2021, Bree served 18 years in a wide variety of Air Force positions including a Research and Development command position and an oversight role for all Air Force security cooperation activity with Iraq. In earlier assignments, Bree served in the Air Force Directorate of Strategic Plans, as a Legislative Fellow at the US Capitol on the staff of Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo, several tours as a program manager for satellite and technology programs, and deployed to Qatar and Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

​Bree came out publicly as transgender on the day the transgender ban in the military was dropped in 2016. She transitioned while in a command position and served through the re-imposition of a transgender ban from 2019-2021. She is currently one of the highest ranking out transgender officers in the United States military.”

Recruiting new people, training them, and trusting them to replace these already trained and tested workers is costly as well as immoral.

They are NOT getting treated like any other service member starting retirement. It’s disgusting how we are treating these veterans. I am embarrassed. 

Want to do something about it?

1) Use the 5 Calls app to contact your elected officials and state your support of keeping transgender service members in the military with the same support all service members get. https://5calls.org/ 

2) Read Bree’s website https://www.breefram.com

3) Listen to Bree’s podcast on leadership and LGBTQ+ issues: https://www.forgedinfire.org/