News Transgender Navy SEAL 'Warrior Princess' Comes Out - Page 2

scho63 · 06-04-2013, 08:23 AM

WHOA! This dude, I mean lady, is scary on many fronts.

She will kick your ass!

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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."

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."

"For years Chris had turned off his sexuality like a light switch and lived as a warrior, consumed with the battle -- living basically asexual. For Chris the other SEALs were brothers and in the man's man warrior lifestyle, even if he had wanted to entertain sexual thoughts, there really was never any time to be thinking too much about sexuality," the book says.

After her retirement in 2011, however, "Now seemed the right time to go for it -- to make his body match his identity -- or at least start by dressing like a woman in his regular life."

Speckhard said Beck first announced her decision to friends online with the declaration "No more disguises" and the book describes her going out to gay bars in Florida as a woman.

Beck is currently on hormone therapy in preparation for sexual reassignment surgery and generally wears long hair, make-up and women's clothes, Speckhard said.

In the book's Preface, Beck said she wrote the book "to reach out to all of the younger generation and encourage you to live your life fully and to treat each other with compassion, be good to each other, especially in your own backyard (where it be high school or your community)."

BlackHelicopters · 06-04-2013, 09:36 AM

Wait. What?

**loochy** · 06-04-2013, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Dante84

/obligatory ignorant bible-belt homophobic joke

/obligatory why the hell wouldn't something this bizarre get ridiculed comment

Rasputin · 06-04-2013, 09:38 AM

Can we just nuke Florida from orbit to be sure?

**ptlyon** · 06-04-2013, 09:38 AM

Wonder if he/she will enlist I'm the Israeli army?

**loochy** · 06-04-2013, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

Can we just nuke Florida from orbit to be sure?

only if you promise to make miami ground zero

**Donger** · 06-04-2013, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Dante84

/obligatory ignorant bible-belt homophobic joke

The only easy day was yesterday.

Molitoth · 06-04-2013, 09:58 AM

One of my good friends just decided to do this last year.

He was one of the manliest dudes I knew.... and then one day he just hit me with "I've always felt I was supposed to be born a woman."

It was crazy stuff, but hearing the back story made sense.

He has currently lost all of his muscle mass and is on the hormone meds doing his transformation. A little odd watching it happen, but he/she is still one of the nicest people I know that would give anything to help out anyone, even a stranger.

He was an EMT and Ambulance Driver for Childrens Mercy Hospital for many years, saving kids lives daily. They fired him within a month of his "coming out".
Sad really.

**Donger** · 06-04-2013, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Molitoth

One of my good friends just decided to do this last year.

He was one of the manliest dudes I knew.... and then one day he just hit me with "I've always felt I was supposed to be born a woman."

It was crazy stuff, but hearing the back story made sense.

He has currently lost all of his muscle mass and is on the hormone meds doing his transformation. A little odd watching it happen, but he/she is still one of the nicest people I know that would give anything to help out anyone, even a stranger.

He was an EMT and Ambulance Driver for Childrens Mercy Hospital for many years, saving kids lives daily. They fired him within a month of his "coming out".
Sad really.

I'm sure you'll always be BUD/S

**loochy** · 06-04-2013, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Molitoth

He was an EMT and Ambulance Driver for Childrens Mercy Hospital for many years, saving kids lives daily. They fired him within a month of his "coming out".
Sad really.

WTF does driving an ambulance have to do with that? I'm thinking the surgery would in no way affect hiser ability to drive or render aid to an injured child.

Lawsuit?

Kylo Ren · 06-04-2013, 10:27 AM

He's still a dude. Just a messed up in the head dude. Probably PTSD.

Molitoth · 06-04-2013, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by loochy

WTF does driving an ambulance have to do with that? I'm thinking the surgery would in no way affect hiser ability to drive or render aid to an injured child.

Lawsuit?

Childrens Mercy supposedly did their homework before the fire. And while he half-assed looking into a lawsuit... he's not dedicated to blaming his problems on others. He knew taking this step would cost him a lot... (his marriage, his job, most of his friends) but he went through with it anyway, and feels a giant weight lifted off his/her shoulder.

Crazy, I know.

**ptlyon** · 06-04-2013, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Molitoth

but he went through with it anyway, and feels a giant weight lifted off his/her shoulder.

And his crotch region

saphojunkie · 06-04-2013, 11:59 AM

There is only one thing I know about transgender that is 100% certain:

It's pointless to discuss it over the internet, as even valid points will be lost in a sea of irrational, concrete beliefs based on personal opinion. Save your keystrokes.

listopencil · 06-04-2013, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

There is only one thing I know about transgender that is 100% certain:

It's pointless to discuss it over the internet, as even valid points will be lost in a sea of irrational, concrete beliefs based on personal opinion. Save your keystrokes.

^

**ptlyon** · 06-04-2013, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

^

Wasted keystroke right there

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