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Transgender veterans advocate for
military access with DADT repeal

MSA passes resolution.
to reach out to students

Estimates: 300,000
transgender people
have served
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -
Before handcuffing herself to the
White House fence, former Petty
Officer First Class Autumn San-
deen carefully pinned three rows
of Navy ribbons to her chest. Her
regulation dress blue skirt, fitted
jacket, hat and black pumps were
new - fitting for a woman who
spent two decades serving her
country asa man.
Sandeen was the only transgen-
der person among the six veterans
arrested in April while protest-
ing the military's ban on openly
gay troops. But when she watched
'President Barack Obama last
month sign the hard-fought bill
allowing for the ban's repeal, mel-
ancholy tinged her satisfaction.
"This is another bridesmaid
moment for the transgender com-
munity," the 51-year-old San Diego
resident said.
The "don't ask, don't tell" policy
now heading toward history does
not apply to transgender recruits,
who are automatically disqualified
as unfit for service. But the mili-
tary's long-standing posture on
gender-identity has not prevented
transgender citizens from signing
up before they come out, or from
obtaining psychological counsel-
ing, hormones and routine health

care through the Department of
Veterans Affairs once they return
to civilian life.
So as the Pentagon prepares to
welcome openly gay, lesbian and
bisexual service members for the
first time, Sandeen is not alone in
hoping the United States will one
day join the seven other nations
- Canada, the United Kingdom,
Spain, Israel, the Czech Repub-
lic, Thailand and Australia - that
allow transgender troops.
"There is really no question, it's
just a matter of when," said former
Army Capt. Allyson Robinson, 40,
a 1994 West Point graduate who
has spoken to sociology classes at
the alma mater she attended as a
male cadet. "There are active-duty,
as well as reserve and national
guard transgender service mem-
bers, serving today."
No one knows how many trans-
gender people are serving or have
served. Neither the Department of
Defense nor the VA keep statistics
on how many service members
have been discharged or treated
for transgender conditions or con-
duct.
The Transgender American
Veterans Association, an advocacy
group founded in 2003, estimates
there could be as many as 300,000
transgender people among the
nation's 26 million veterans.
When 50 TAVA members
laid a wreath at the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier six years ago,
representatives from every U.S.

conflict since World War II were
there, said former Navy Machinist
Mate First Class Monica Helms,
the group's co-founder and presi-
dent.
Most had spent years, if not
decades, as veterans before they
could acknowledge the mismatch-
es between their brains and their
bodies. Helms, 59, spent four years
in the engine room of a nuclear
submarine during the Vietnam
War, but did not start living as
Monica until 1997.
Military regulations state that
men and women who identify
with or present a gender differ-
ent from their sex at birth have
mental conditions that make them
ineligible to serve. Those who have
undergone genital surgery are
listed as having physical abnor-
malities. Service members caught
cross-dressing on base have been
court-martialed for interfering
with "good order and discipline,"
according to the National Center
for Transgender Equality.
Until the American Psychiatric
Association removes Gender Iden-
tity Disorder from its Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders, as it did for homosexu-
ality in 1973, that's likely to remain
the case, Sandeen said.
The very diagnosis that keeps
transgender Americans out of uni-
form has enabled some to obtain
transition-related medical care
and other services when they
become veterans.

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MSA elections this fall, in which-
ROBIN VEECK only 10.2 percent of the University
Daily StaffReporter students voted, as an example of
the student body's lack of interest
contentious close vote in MSA.
ght, the Michigan Student "At the end of the day; there is
sly passed a resolution in a still a significant number of people
te to improve student rela- on campus who aren't voting, and
nd combat feelings of apa- a significant number of people on
'ard MSA. campus don't care," Watson said.
neering junior DeAndree "I am saying this because I want
, MSA interim speaker, you to understand the campus
last night's meeting in apathy."
Chambers in the Michi- Watson urged assembly mem-
ion with a speech urging bers to reach out to the students
ly members to reach out to they represent to listen to their
onstituents and fight stu- concerns and raise awareness
ndifference about student about MSA's accomplishments and
ment this semester. LSA goals.
sore and MSA interim vice "This assembly has the man-
r Sean Walser, MSA Presi- power, the enthusiasm and really
hris Armstrong and MSA the responsibility to change these
resident Jason Raymond, students' hearts and change these
Watson's call to action students' minds," Watson said.
r executive reports at the "What I am asking you to do is get
g. out there and engage the commu-
on referred assembly mem- nity that we represent."
the list of member obliga- In an interview after the meet-
MSA's Standing Rules, one ing, Watson cited the MSA air-
h is "Constituent Contact." Bus, MSA's funding of student
nding Rules, which are the organizations and the assembly's
of the assembly, state that recent work in assisting the Open
ers must contact constitu- Housing Initiative as important

projects that University students
should know about.
"The Michigan Student Assem-
bly is there for a reason, and that
reason is relevant today," Watson
said.
The assembly also passed a
resolution at last night's meeting
to create a program, called MSA
Represent, which would require
assembly members to "begin com-
munication and correspondence"
with two student organizations
that will be assigned to the repre-
sentatives, according to the resolu-
tion.
"What this does is require MSA
representatives to take a little
more time out of their busy sched-
ules, and they are very busy, to
talk to their constituents," Public
Policy Rep. Steve Zuckerman, the
author of the resolution, said at the
meeting. "I think this kind of gets
us back to the core of what we real-
ly wanted to do when we started
running in the first place."
Law School Rep. Michael Wag-
ner and other representatives
expressed concern about the MSA
Represent program. Address-
ing the assembly, Wagner said he
was worried that he would have
to interact with an organization
that isn't part of his constituency
because there is a wide variety of
student groups and organizations
on campus.

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