Shawn Skelly was a Navy commander working to help fend off roadside bomb attacks when she came to a realization about herself — one that meant her career in the military was over.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness Shawn Skelly sits for an interview in her office at the Pentagon on April 3. | Francis Chung/POLITICO
And Skelly has a message for Republicans accusing the Department of Defense of promoting diversity and inclusion in the armed forces at the expense ofShawn Skelly, a former naval aviator. | Courtesy of Shawn Skelly Skelly’s appointment was welcomed as a powerful signal of support by transgender troops now serving openly since President Joe Biden overturned a Trump-era ban on trans service members.to ban transgender people from serving in the military.
Skelly speaks during the Center for a New American Security Mission Brief at the Pentagon on Feb. 15, 2022. | Brittany A. Chase/U.S. Air Force “It’s all about small unit cohesion,” she said, arguing that “ostracizing anybody” makes that more difficult.Skelly says her realization about her gender identity came “out of nowhere” in 2006 — when she was 40 years old. By that point, she said she had struggled for years with depression and feelings of anger and confusion about her identity. She had experimented with cross-dressing, but never put the pieces together until that point.
Skelly sought help, hiring a counselor who helped her get through those months and a number more before she felt she could finally leave.
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