Biden Nomination Would Be Pentagon’s Most Senior Openly Transgender Official

President Biden will nominate a transgender retired Navy commander to oversee readiness at the Pentagon, the White House said Friday.

If confirmed as assistant secretary of Defense for readiness, Shawn Skelly would be the highest ever ranking openly transgender defense official.

Skelly, a former Navy aviator, most recently served on Biden’s Pentagon transition team.

[He] is also the co-founder and vice president of Out in National Security, which advocates for increased representation of LGBT people in the national security workforce.

[His] nomination comes after Biden reversed the Trump administration’s ban on most transgender service members. Late last month, the Pentagon released its new rules allowing open service by transgender troops, essentially reverting to the Obama administration’s open service policy. (Read more from “Biden Nomination Would Be Pentagon’s Most Senior Openly Transgender Official” HERE)

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