Shane Ortega: The First Trans Person to Serve Openly in the Military

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Shane Ortega talks about joining the military to fight the bans on LGBTQ people after seeing how hard it was for his mom (who is a lesbian) to serve during Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He talks about building a queer and trans community in the military, the privileges he’s experienced due to the high value we place on masculinity, and his plans for the future. 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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