Shawn Skelly was a Navy commander working to help ... She is the DoD’s highest-ranking openly transgender official, and the second to hold an office that requires Senate confirmation.

as barriers for transgender service members continue to fall. Shawn Skelly, a retired aviator, was nominated by the White House on Friday to serve as the assistant secretary of defense for ...

The Biden admin also saw the elevation of transgender retired Navy officer and activist Shawn Skelly as assistant secretary of defense for readiness in 2021, a role Skelly still holds. The White ...

Lauren Boebert made an amendment to reduce the salary for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness Shawn Skelly to $1, because Skelly is transgender. Boebert’s supposed morality is laughable ...

Shawn Skelly will serve as assistant secretary of defense for readiness, becoming the first transgender person to hold the post and the highest-ranking out trans defense official in U.S. history.

Shawn Skelly previously worked in the Obama administration in multiple defense and transportation roles, and became the first transgender veteran to be appointed by a president in 2013.

Boebert said Assistant Secretary of Defense Shawn Skelly ... gender identity and transgender issues). Skelly was the second out transgender person ever confirmed by the Senate.

If confirmed as assistant secretary of Defense for readiness, Shawn Skelly would be the highest ever ranking openly transgender defense official. Skelly, a former Navy aviator, most recently ...

Transgender veteran Shawn Skelly was added to President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential transition team at the Department of Defense. “Joe Biden has made clear that he wants the next ...

Several LGBTQ people have been appointed to President-elect Biden's transition team, but one, in particular, sends a strong message. The Biden transition team has named several LGBTQ people to ...

Shawn Skelly will serve as the assistant secretary of defense for readiness, making Skelly the highest-ranking out transgender defense official in the country’s history. Both were confirmed with ...

President-elect Joe Biden has appointed veteran Shawn Skelly as a member of ... s push to reverse President Trump’s transgender military ban. Skelly, vice president of Out in National Security ...