Ex-US Navy SEAL comes out as transgender

[Tehmasib]

WASHINGTON (AFP) : A decorated former US Navy SEAL is now living life as a woman after undergoing hormone therapy and has written about her gender struggle in a new memoir titled “Warrior Princess.”
Kirsten Beck has published an eBook recounting her inner turmoil while she served in the all-male SEAL Team 6, which she retired from months before the unit killed Qaeda leader obl in 2011.
Beck’s book comes more than two years since Congress repealed a ban on openly homosexual troops serving in the US military. But openly transgender men and women are still barred from service. The book went on sale on Saturday on Amazon.com and has the subtitle, “A US Navy SEAL’s Journey to Coming out Transgender,” with a cover photo of Beck looking like the quintessential SEAL warrior in the field