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Update:
A more expansive article on the same court case which profiles the very real human being that are effected by this issue....
Add up the years of service and make note of the ranks that they have attained and THEN explain why they are not fit to serve!
Lambda Legal Challenge to Military Trans Ban on Course to Proceed to Trial
In the lawsuit, Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN represent nine individual plaintiffs and three organizational plaintiffs. The individual plaintiffs, all of whom are transgender, include:
The organizational plaintiffs are the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Seattle-based Gender Justice League, and the American Military Partner Association (AMPA), who joined the lawsuit on behalf of their transgender members harmed by the ban. The case has also been joined by the state of Washington.
- Staff Sergeant Cathrine (“Katie”) Schmid, a 33-year-old woman and 12-year member of the U.S. Army currently serving in Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, who has applied to become an Army Warrant Officer;
- Petty Officer Terece Lewis, a 33-year-old woman and 14-year member of the U.S. Navy serving on the U.S.S. John C. Stennis out of Bremerton, Washington;
- Chief Warrant Officer Lindsey Muller, a 36-year-old woman and 17-year member of the U.S. Army serving at Camp Humphreys in South Korea;
- Petty Officer Second Class Phillip Stephens, a 30-year-old man and five-year member of the U.S. Navy serving at Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso, Florida;
- Petty Officer Second Class Megan Winters, a 29-year-old woman and five-year member of the U.S. Navy serving in the Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington, D.C.;
- Ryan Karnoski, a 23-year-old Seattle man who currently works as a social worker and wishes to become an officer doing social work for the military;
- Conner Callahan, a 29-year-old man who currently works in law enforcement in North Carolina;
- Drew Layne, a recent high-school graduate from Corpus Christi, Texas, who is 17 years old and, with parental support, wants to join the Air Force; and
- A ninth individual currently serving in the military who remains anonymous
Social work officers? WTF over? There is no such thing!
Why are we worried about 9 people?
It is an example of the people we are talking about Sparky. And all lives matter.
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