I filed a petition to change my name in January of this year. Even with some assistance from counsel, the petition took nearly four months to draft and file before I ever made it to a hearing before the court. The hearing and filings were public, and I had to pay fees for filing and posting a legal notice in a local newspaper costing me nearly $500. And, despite making it clear that I identify as female, and having two military psychiatrists recommend support for my transition, legally changing my name has no effect on the \u201clegal\u201d gender status that the government imposes upon me.<\/p>\n
Photo identification isn\u2019t the only thing at stake for trans people. According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, one in five trans people in the US have been denied housing because of their gender identity. One in 10 have been evicted because of it.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re banned from serving our country in the armed services unless we serve as trans people in secret, as I did. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’ll state the obvious here, Bradley; you’re a criminal, you don’t have any civil rights that don’t apply to your conviction. You are a traitor, you flaunted the laws of this country, you don’t get to pick and choose which laws apply to you – either they all apply to you, or none of them apply to you. You already made the choices in that regard. Sit down and shut up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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