Transgender Navy SEAL 'Warrior Princess' Comes Out

[onehandle]

Source: ABC News

A former member of the elite U.S. Navy SEALs has come out to say she's now a woman.

Kristin Beck, formerly Chris, served 20 years as a SEAL and fought on some of the most dangerous battlefields in the world, but after she left the service she realized she wasn't living the life she wanted.

"Chris really wanted to be a girl and felt that she was a girl and consolidated that identity very early on in childhood," said Anne Speckhard, co-author of Beck's biography "Warrior Princess," which was published over the weekend. Speckhard told ABC News Beck suppressed that secret for decades, however, through the trials of SEAL training and the harrowing missions that followed, growing a burly beard as she fought on the front lines of American special operations.

Brandon Webb, a former SEAL who served on a different SEAL team than Beck, said that Beck's reputation in the SEALs was a good one and said she was, by all appearances, the "consummate guy's guy."

Read more: http://gma.yahoo.com/transgender-navy-seal-warrior-princess-comes-005114970--abc-news-topstories.html

[a kennedy]

1. topic post here already.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2944314

[Tx4obama]

2. Your link goes to the General Discussion forum. So, this thread in LBN is not a dupe.

As long as a story is posted 'only once in LBN' then all is good

[pinboy3niner]

3. Yesterday's LBN thread on this was locked by hosts

Breaking: The First Female Navy SEAL, Kristen Beck
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014499370

[Tx4obama]

5. I believe that one yesterday was locked because the OP text was from an Amazon book review

... and the OP linked website wasn't a 'main stream' source.

The new OP is from ABC News.

[Bonx]

4. And stupid people will be pissed off about this.

F*ck em.

[sofa king]

6. It's a Terro-trap, ha ha!