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Title: Naval Academy Offers ‘Transgender 101’ For Faculty, Cadets Photo of David Krayden David Krayden
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URL Source: http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/08/c ... e-the-cut-for-thank-you-party/
Published: Dec 8, 2016
Author: aa
Post Date: 2016-12-08 14:47:49 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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The U.S. Naval Academy is offering a voluntary “Transgender 101” workshop for faculty, staff and cadets this Friday.

Annapolis will host two one-and-a-half-hour sessions conducted by “transgender trainers” Kevin Perry and Marnie Florin. Participants are invited to register online at the academy’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) website. The first session is for faculty and staff and the second is reserved for midshipmen, or cadets. The CTL is paying for the training that is expected to attract over 120 students and staff in total.

The entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy in downtown Annapolis, Md. on October 21, 2012. The campus founded in 1845 is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn. (Photo: Shutterstock)   The entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy in downtown Annapolis, Md. on October 21, 2012. The campus founded in 1845 is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn. (Photo: Shutterstock)   

According to an email released from Annapolis last Friday and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, those successfully completing the seminar will have the opportunity to publicly display their support for the “trans community.”

“On Friday, December 9, the Center for Teaching & Leaning welcomes Kevin Perry and Marnie Florin who will be presenting Transgender 101: Gender Identity in the Workplace,” the email said. “Marnie and Kevin have given this workshop at Google offices around the globe to more than 2,500 employees.”

“Kevin and Marnie teamed out to create the Trans 101 session with the hope that it would create more supportive and inclusive workplaces by helping people better understand the trans experience and what it means to be an ally to the trans community.”

“Attendees will receive door cards, which they may display if they wish, to indicate that they are allies,” the email promised.

According to Florin’s website, the diversity instructor “identifies as gender neutral and goes by the pronouns ‘ze’ or ‘they.'”

Florin’s first attempt at “LGBTQ training” occurred when she was a volunteer for the U.S. Peace Corps in West Africa. After working for the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, “ze organized and canvassed for gay marriage.”

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Florin created her Transgender 101 training “after coming out as gender neutral at Columbia Business School” and realizing that her “peers were a bit confused and had a lot of questions.” “Ze” told the New York Times, “I was really disappointed to find that the L.G.B.T. community at Columbia Business School consisted of so many white, cisgender men” (those comfortable in the sex assigned at birth). Few were transgender or lesbian.”

The training now occurs every year at Columbia, where Florin succeeded in creating “a gender neutral bathroom” and “an option other than male and female” for the admissions application form. While working for Google, she and colleague Kevin Perry developed “Transgender @Google,” which has also been presented to staff at YouTube and Twitter.

The United States Navy fully supports the transgender training. In a news release of Nov. 7, 2016, the chief of naval personnel public affairs announced: “To remain the finest seagoing fighting force the world has ever known, the Navy needs men and women who are the right fit for the right job regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, or gender identity.”

Annapolis spokeswoman Dr. Karyn Sproles did not respond to queries from The Daily Caller for comment.


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#3. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)

Will the men be required to attend class in drag?

All this gay stuff is nothing new for the navy..

FormerLurker  posted on  2016-12-08   15:59:20 ET  (2 images) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: FormerLurker (#3)

All this gay stuff is nothing new for the navy..

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You know this because?

HAPPY2BME-4UM  posted on  2016-12-08   16:03:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#4) (Edited)

Because I WASN'T in the navy, I was in the USMC... :)

But yep, just do a quick Google scan of "sailors in drag" and you'll see a LOT of bizarro stuff.

It's the reason I DIDN'T want to join the navy, as just a little thinking about what they do when they're at sea for months at a time quickly made me dismiss the idea.

As far as the image I posted, it's the cover of a book that describes the "secret" of gayness in the navy over the years.

FormerLurker  posted on  2016-12-08   16:07:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: FormerLurker (#5)

Because I WASN'T in the navy, I was in the USMC... :)

Reminds of of the old jokes:

"Why do sailors have so many tatoos?

Answer: "So the Marines would have something to read while having sex."

And:

Why does the Navy send Marines to sea with the Navy?"

answer: "So the sailors will have someone to dance with."

sneakypete  posted on  2016-12-08   17:43:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: sneakypete (#9) (Edited)

Why does the Navy send Marines to sea with the Navy?"

answer: "So the sailors will have someone to dance with."

I take it you were a sailor boy, eh pete? :)

Actually, they don't need Marines for that. Sailors dancing with other sailors seems to be an old "tradition".

They don't call each other "mate" for nothing...

FormerLurker  posted on  2016-12-08   19:36:30 ET  (3 images) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: FormerLurker (#13) (Edited)

I take it you were a sailor boy, eh pete? :)

Nope,career army NCO. We liked females.

I did get stuck with escorting a classified radio van back to Bragg from the DR in 1965,though. It was loaded on a LST pulled up to the beach,and it was also taking a bunch of regular army guys back to the US. There was vomit almost ankle deep in the bunk area where the hammocks were,and the bow was still on the beach.

No way in hell was I sleeping in the hammock area with all those sick hillbillies,so I slept in the cab of the truck that was chained down on deck,or in the radio van that was in the back of the truck.

We hit a tropical storm off of one of the island chains on the way back,and the damn LST was taking 40 degree rolls. I can't begin to imagine what a nightmare that must have been down in the bunk area. I got off the deck and went into the galley and drank coffee and talked with the cooks. No way in hell was I going to stay in that truck parked right next to the rail with the deck rolling like that.

I did work as a deckhand on a shrimp boat the summer I was 13,and then haul seine and set or long haul net fish the rest of the time until I got old enough to enlist in the army,though.

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#17. To: sneakypete (#16)

Nope,career army NCO. We liked females.

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What year did you retire?

HAPPY2BME-4UM  posted on  2016-12-08 21:34:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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