Warrior Princess

Zoombie · Jun 4, 2013

http://news.yahoo.com/transgender-n...ess-comes-005114970--abc-news-topstories.html

"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."

But the book says that Chris "had considered living as the woman he felt himself to be for a very long time, but while he was serving as a SEAL he couldn't do it."

I really really really really really really really really really really really want Kristen Beck to meet one of those hawkish Republican blowyards.

I really really do.

I also want to film it.

Rhoda Nightingale · Jun 4, 2013

I read about this in the paper this morning. Looks fantastic.

KateSmash · Jun 4, 2013

As always, don't read the comments. Never read the comments.

I need a puppy. And a beer with this awesome lady for kicking down a door that really needed the kicking.

Zoombie · Jun 4, 2013

I don't know, the first comment I saw boiled down to "good for her!"

I decided to accept that, and stop reading

J.S.F. · Jun 4, 2013

I'd buy her a drink...and hope to hell she doesn't kill me.

Seriously, though, I'll echo the comments of a former vet who posted his comments at the bottom of the article. What she does on her own time is her own business. I thank her for her service.

Mara · Jun 5, 2013

It's said that being transgender makes every single thing harder. It's a difficulty multiplier, making even trips to the grocery store a bit difficult at times. Being post-transition is infinitely easier than pre-transition.

So, apply the pre-transition difficulty multiplier to Navy freakin' SEAL base difficulty, and wow.

clee984 · Jun 5, 2013

KateSmash said:
As always, don't read the comments. Never read the comments.

I need a puppy. And a beer with this awesome lady for kicking down a door that really needed the kicking.

Ignore the comments, those people are just being (ahem) xenaphobic *sips water*.

Warrior Princess

Zoombie

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Rhoda Nightingale

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KateSmash

this was a triumph

Zoombie

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J.S.F.

Red fish, blue fish...

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clee984

Bearded and serious