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If someone has earned their dolphins, that’s all I need to know. The only issue I have is the language used in the announcement. A person’s gender is not “assigned at birth” or even “assigned” at all. It is a biological and genetic reality that takes place at conception and remain in every cell of a person’s body for their entire life, regardless of any cosmetic changes they undergo. “Gender roles” may be philosophical and not physiological, but gender itself... U.S. Navy submarine supply officer Blake Dremann made history #OnThisDay in 2016 when he became the first openly transgender service member — across all branches of the U.S. military — to be promoted. Dremann was advanced to the rank of lieutenant commander. Dremann's historic promotion wasn't the first time he led the way. Five years earlier, while serving in the sex he was assigned at birth, Dremann and 23 women integrated the U.S Submarine Force. He made five deterrent patrols as a submarine supply officer with USS Maine (SSBN 741) before coming out as transgender in 2015. Dremann is a 2015 recipient of the Navy League's Vice Admiral Robert F. Batchelder Award, the Navy’s highest logistics award given to the top five junior supply officers, for making significant contributions to the operational readiness of the fleet. He is also a qualified surface warfare supply officer and deployed for a year to Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne. (Feed generated with FetchRSS) September 10, 2020 at 01:00PM - E Pluribus OTAP

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