Shane Ortega: Fighting for Transgender Rights in the Military

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Shane Ortega (the first transgender person to serve openly in the military) talks about why his mom was the motivation behind him joining the military, specifically to fight the bans that kept LGBTQ people from serving openly. He also discusses building queer and trans communities in the armed forces and the privilege he experiences due to the high value culture places on masculinity. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1 You can recommend a guest or let us know what you think about the show on Twitter or by emailing [email protected] More information: www.LGBTQpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Hey, this is LGBTQNA, where we get to know different members of the LGBTQ community.
0:05.9	I'm Jeffrey Masters, and I'm here today with Shane Ortega.
0:09.2	Shane is an activist and the first trans person to serve openly in the military.
0:13.2	Stay tuned. Hey, Shane.
0:28.2	Hi, Shane.
0:28.8	Hi.
0:29.2	How are you?
0:29.9	I'm great.
0:30.8	Good.
0:31.2	Welcome to our show.
0:32.6	Oh, thank you so much.
0:33.6	It's a very humbling and a pleasure to be here.
0:35.6	Oh, thank you.
0:36.2	That's very nice.
0:37.1	I forget
0:37.8	that it's only been a few months since the ban on trans people serving the military has been
0:43.4	lifted. Yeah, absolutely. So everything that's still like implementation and sort of
0:48.8	those incongruencies are still being like sort of shined up. But yeah, it's still like a roller coasters, as you could say.
0:56.0	Yeah, it's still a work in progress.
0:57.8	Yes.
0:58.4	All right.
0:58.6	So like obviously like the band's when lifted, but obviously like the fight is not over.
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