Blake Dremann is a transgender commander of the US Army who sees his situation in danger due to Trump's veto on transgender people
GAYLES.TV.- Blake Dremann firmly defends a fact that for him has no possible discussion: "The important thing is that I am a marine, my sexual identity is indifferent". And so he read the poster he exhibited at the June pride march in Washington: "It just happens that this sailor is trans."
But the situation is anything but simple for Dremann and the 13.000 transgender people who are calculated to serve in the US Army. Since the recent announcement of Donald Trump on the repeal of the law, which allows since June 2016 that transsexual people are part of the Armed Forces without hiding their identity, the uncertainty about their personal and professional situation is the daily bread.
Faced with Trump's arguments about the cost of sex reassignment treatments, Dremann says that "we do not affect preparation or cohesion and we are not exorbitantly expensive." Transgender advocacy organizations estimate that the cost of the gender reassignment process to the military would cost between 2,4 and 8,4 millions of dollars per year; A trifle if compared to the 41 millions that Defense spent in the 2014 on a drug aimed at improving the sexual activity of the troop. Speechless.
Blake Dremann's story is especially painful because Trump's veto comes barely 2 years after deciding to leave the wardrobe. She enlisted in the Navy at 2006 and received numerous decorations while maintaining her identity as a woman. In the 2011 begins to clarify its identity like transgender and two years later it initiates the transit with a medical treatment that he paid for himself. Finally in July of 2015 decides to communicate to his superiors that he has a new masculine name. The reaction was positive in every way: the Pentagon began paying for the continuation of its treatment and that same year it would be named lieutenant commander. "I have gained in confidence and leadership. I'm 10 times the Marine I was before ".
But today Dremann fears to return to the closet, the nonsense of a double life and, what is worse, the possibility that his brilliant career as a marine is truncated. Yet Dremann has decided not to wait for the events to unfold across his arms. Currently directs Sparta, the largest transgender organization in the Army and, from its position, affirms that it is willing to take the Trump ban to the courts in the event that it ends up being materialized.
Source: elpaís.com
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