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@nevereverdave.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 6:49 PM

@channel4news.bsky.social run a recent history piece on #Trump's banishing #transgender people from public services. It's not clear why now? Approximately 3 weeks since American press ran their articles. It'll be on the +1 . #JuliaCurlee and another trans woman colonel made to leave a loved service.

As the steel gates opened, he leaned in. "You know, it's a privilege to work here." "Yes, sir." I held his gaze. "It is." When my tour finally ended, Pence invited my family to the White House. In his office, he took my mother's hand and smiled: "You must be very proud of your daughter." Years before, my mother had told me that in her grief, she'd felt that -somehow-I'd killed her son. Now I'd done the impossible: lived both dreams, becoming an intelligence officer and a woman. Now the vice president was holding my mother's hand. No one has affirmed my gender identity quite like Mike Pence. On my last day, I gave him a letter. I wrote: "I'm a transgender CIA officer, a wife and mother and I served the Vice President. Anything is possible in America." I told him many people at the CIA hadn't believed that a trans officer like me could serve someone like him. "Well," he said, "I'm glad I passed the test." In that moment, it felt like the battle had been won.Flailing regimes dehumanize minorities to distract from their failures. When the economy collapses or a war goes badly, they find a tiny group of people, make them the enemy within, and rally the country against them. This is how it's gone in Iran. Hungary. Russia. I wrote Presidential Daily Briefings about it. This will not stop with trans people. It never has. But that caricature works only if people like me don't exist and I exist. I speak now because somewhere, a trans kid is watching. I want that kid to know that they are not alone. I was a trans kid too, and I'll be damned if I let another generation grow up the way I did -told that they don't belong, that they don't deserve a job, a bathroom, a future. If I could brief presidents and serve in the White House-twice-so can they. I had planned to spend the rest of my career serving my country at the CIA. This White House took my calling, but it will not take my pride, or tell me that I don't belong, or that I must disappear. I once wrote under a pseudonym so I could keep serving. I write now in my own name for the same reason. Julia.Julia Curlee Mike Pence and Julia Curlee during Trump’s first presidency.
@siriusxmprog.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 4:16 PM

#JuliaCurlee of @lawfaremedia.org , who is a former CIA analyst fired in a transphobic purge by the @realdonaldtrump.govmirrors.com administration, talking about the long term damage #MAGA has done to the #CIA, on the @msignorile.bsky.social Show

Full interview on the app: siriusxm.us/Progress

@siriusxmprog.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 6:48 PM

‼️ On today's @msignorile.bsky.social Show ‼️

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#JuliaCurlee
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@resist47.newsSep 15, 2026, 11:32 AM

Former senior CIA official Julia Curlee discusses the Trump administration's national security staff purges and the challenges facing the intelligence community following her March 2025...

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#resist47 #TransCIA #JuliaCurlee #NationalSecurity #DEIPurge