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Máel Sheridan, Ph.D., J.D. is a veteran of the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, and author of Camouflage Isn’t Only for Combat: Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military (1998, NYU Press) and The U.S. Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy: A Reference Handbook (2007, Praeger Security International). Other recent publications include “Transgender Military Service: A Snapshot in Time” in The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military (2017, Woodward and Duncanson, Eds.) and “'Welcome! Oh, wait…' Transgender Military Service in a Time of Uncertainty" (Sociological Inquiry, May 2020, 90:2, 405-419).
Bree Fram is an active duty astronautical engineer (rocket scientist) and Lieutenant Colonel in the US Space Force. Bree publicly came out as transgender on the day the transgender ban in the military was dropped in 2016. She is the president of SPARTA, an organization that advocates and educates about transgender military service. Bree has also provided a number of educational briefings on transgender and diversity issues to military and civilian audiences and speaks regularly with the media.
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