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Trans military colonel issues defiant message after being booted from post as Trump ban takes effect
2025-06-09
Goodbye and good luck, with thanks for your service and the hope that you finally get help with your issues instead of having them expensively encouraged.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] One of the military's highest ranking transgender officials is speaking out after being placed on administrative leave as part of the Trump administration's ban on trans troops.

Colonel Bree Fram, who came out as transgender in 2016 when the initial ban on trans troops was lifted, was an astronautical engineer in the US Space Force and was the Pentagon's division chief for requirements integration.
I have no idea what that means.
She posted to Instagram Friday saying 'I have been officially placed on administrative leave, effective tomorrow, pending separation' after the Supreme Court ruled the ban could go ahead.
How many more of the necessary spacey thingamabobs will they be able to afford now that they needn’t pay for his expensive hormone treatments and such? I don’t imagine the Space Force needs much in the way of bullets…
Fram - whose profile picture on the social media app is an LGBT rainbow version of the Space Force logo - defiantly spoke of sobbing as she pinned medals on three of 'my folks' in her last official act in service.

'The last salute broke my heart in two and the tears flowed freely even as I have so much to be thankful for and so many amazing memories.'
Ohfergawdsake! Maybe big military men cry like little girls, but not female ones showing they can play with the big boys. Do stop playacting.
Fram detailed the day she came out in 2016, telling a story of how her teammates responded to the announcement by shaking her hand and, one by one, saying: 'It's an honor to serve with you.'
President Obama made it clear what his rules were, regardless of the private opinions of those in uniform on something that had nothing to do with the quality and value of the colonel’s work.
She also spoke about a similar experience last week, when she announced at a joint staff meeting that she was leaving and that she no longer met 'the current standard for military excellence and readiness.'

'A room full of senior leaders, admirals and generals, walked over to me and the scene from 2016 repeated. They offered those same words, now tinged with the sadness of past tense: 'It's been an honor to serve with you',' she said.

She added that she walked away with tears in her eyes because Fram felt that it had been her honor all along.

'It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve this nation and defend the freedoms and opportunities we have as Americans. My wildest dreams came true wearing this uniform.'

In the past six months, Fram had been posting photos of her fellow transgender troops on Instagram listing their accomplishment with the tagline: 'Happens to Be Trans.'

Fram told Stars and Stripes that, most recently, her work had been focused on 'defining the future capabilities that we're going to need to win wars far into the future.'

She added that her Instagram post was an attempt to speak on behalf of her fellow transgender soldiers.

'It is almost a duty and an obligation to speak on their behalf because it is my privilege to do so and to hopefully represent transgender service members well that do not have the privilege that comes along with the rank and the experience that I do,' she said.

'If I don't speak for them and they are unable to speak for themselves, who will speak for them?'

In early May, the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump's ban on troops with gender dysphoria can stand.

The ban enacted by the Department of Defense on February 26 detailed that 'the medical, surgical, and mental health constraints on individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms with, gender dysphoria are incompatible with the high mental and physical standards necessary for military service.'

The level challenge to the order was filed by Commander Emily Shilling, together with six other current transgender service members and one transgender person who wants to join the military.

Schilling appeared at the LGBT Community Center dinner on April 10 to be honored for the legal fight against the president and his administration.

'I swore an oath to support and defend the onstitution,' Schilling said. 'That oath requires obedience to lawful orders. But when an order undermines the very principles I swore to uphold, I have the responsibility to challenge it.'

Shortly after he was inaugurated in 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order overturning Trump's initial ban on service of transgender individuals in the military.

After Trump was inaugurated he ordered the ban to be reinstated.

Trump and Hegseth view the extra care required for transgender service members to be a distraction to military readiness.

In February, Hegseth ordered a pause on gender-transitioning medical procedures for active duty service members.

'Effective immediately, all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria are paused, and all unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition for Service members are paused,' his memo said.
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Related:
Bree Fram 03/01/2024 Air Force Academy Highlights Transgender Officer At Leadership Summit
Bree Fram 01/20/2022 Pentagon said to be eyeing ways to allow nonbinary troops to serve in the ranks

Posted by:Skidmark

#4  ... posting photos of her fellow transgender troops on Instagram listing their accomplishment with the tagline: 'Happens to Be Trans.'

Ain't no "happening" about it, you decided it. Essence precedes existence despite what you have been told.

Copilot sez... "Essence precedes existence" is a phrase from classic metaphysics that means the "essence" or "nature" of a thing exists in the mind of the creator before the actual thing exists in the world. In existentialism, the phrase "existence precedes essence" means that humans do not have a nature that determines their modes of being and acting, but rather, those modes are simply possibilities from which they may choose and on the basis of which they can project themselves

and thus "gender is a social construct" to existentialists. Such thinking influenced at least one nominee to SCOTUS to such a degree she did not think herself qualified to give a definition of a woman in a Senate hearing. Balderdash! Bad philosophy leads to bad policy.
Posted by: Melancholic   2025-06-09 18:00  

#3  Entering the military is like entering a monastery system. You give up several things to join. As long as you are in the monastery you conform to its requirements in behavior and decorum. The monastery doesn't conform to yours.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2025-06-09 16:36  

#2  "an attempt to speak on behalf of her fellow transgender soldiers"
Be sure and speak from further away.
Posted by: ed in texas   2025-06-09 14:29  

#1  I think the DM author included the phrase: Pentagon's division chief for requirements integration only because it sounded woke. I looked and the position is only about the integration of the other Services w/ Space Force.
Posted by: mossomo   2025-06-09 12:41  

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