This split screen is of a decorated US Navy SEAL veteran that has begun living as a woman… It’s official! The world’s very first transgender member of the elite special operations force! At least the first to come out of the closet! I gotta say, I did NOT see this one coming! Not so sure I needed to in the first place!

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Now known as, Kristin Beck, fought battles in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq! And even garnered the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, albeit as Chris Beck..

Ms Beck, 46, discloses in a new book that while serving in the tough, all-male unit for 20 years, she was dealing privately with a gender identity disorder dating from early childhood.

“I knew I was a girl in third grade,” she writes in Warrior Princess. “As a young child, I’d dream of switching bodies with my sister. I’d go to bed thinking, ‘I want to be her’.”

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