“It’s Like Night and Day”: A Trans Veteran on the Military vs. Her Current Job
Whitney Hayden says she’s “generally not a political person.” But news coming out of Washington, D.C.
It’s estimated that over 134,000 American veterans are transgender, and over 15,000 trans people are serving in military today. Support for transgender veterans has improved, but they still face barriers from obtaining updated service records that do not out them as transgender, and from receiving VA coverage of necessary medical procedures. Find out more about advances and challenges for transgender veterans and service members, and how to get support.
Whitney Hayden says she’s “generally not a political person.” But news coming out of Washington, D.C.
Today, in an historic moment in the movement toward transgender equality, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced the lifting of the ban on transgender service members in the United States Armed