Transgender Who Served in US Navy Seals Speaks Out

Christopher Beck, who served for 13 years in deployment and other seven years in combat deployments, was awarded multiple military awards including a Bronze Star.

He recently served in the seal Team six.

However, after all this years in world worst wars, Christopher posted a photo on Linkedin dressed as a female.

“I fought for 20 years for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I want some happiness.”

Beck has felt trapped in the wrong body since grade school, but didn’t come out until after leaving the military in 2011.

Curing himself

Doing so earlier would have been a big risk because in the United States, transgender men and women are banned from military service.
“That’s a chance that — if I took it — I might be dead today,” she said last year. 

Beck believes she might have wanted to become a SEAL because they are “the toughest of the tough.”
She thought: “I could totally make it go away if I could be at that top level. Maybe I could cure myself.”

The feeling of being born in the wrong body never went away and for her entire military career, Beck kept her secret.

She said virtually no one, out of the thousands of people she worked with, knew the truth — it was so well hidden.

“No one ever met the real me,” she said.

By Musalia Wycliffe