A White House meeting reiterated that Obama opposes DADT, but will defend it in court.

Transgender veteran irate over disriminatory treatment by police

Autumn Sandeen, a 20-year veteran of the Navy, wrote an open letter to President Barack Obama on Monday decrying the intense discrimination she was subjected to as a transgender woman after being arrested at the White House last week.

Sandeen (top left in the photo) and five former and current members of the armed forces, including Lt. Dan Choi, chained themselves to the White House on Friday as part of a GetEQUAL protest of the military’s discriminatory stance on gay service.

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Sandeen wrote on Pam’s House Blend [2], “When I handcuffed myself to the White House fence, I wasn’t an impersonator wearing a costume; I was proudly wearing an appropriate uniform for my gender identity.”

Yet Park Police treated her as less than human. Several people, she wrote, overheard one U.S. Marshal say, “Did you see it? The nerve of it to be wearing a Navy uniform. Did you see the shim in the Navy Uniform?”

Her outrage is understandable. And her message is clear: “President Obama,” she wrote, ”your U.S. Marshal calling me ‘it’ and ‘the shim’ is the equivalent to calling an African-American by the N-word, or calling a gay-American by the anti-gay F-word, it is absolutely unacceptable.”

[1] http://www.365gay.com/wp-content/uploads/news-dadt-protest-sandeen-top.jpg
[2] http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/15940/president-obama-a-transgender-veteran-is-not-impersonator-it-or-shim

WH: No Supreme Court pick this week

(Washington) The White House says President Barack Obama won’t announce a Supreme Court nominee this week.

That pushes the timeline for Obama to announce his choice to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens into May.

Obama said last week that he would make a nomination in the next couple of weeks.

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at his regular briefing Monday that it won’t be this week.

DADT protested at White House

Dan Choi and other LGBT military handcuffed themselves to the White House fence.

Withers: Was Massa always looking for a little gay loving?

I’m already bored with former Rep. Eric Massa. He resigns, blames his problems on the supposed “dirty politics” of the White House, and for about 9 seconds is the darling of the conservative movement. Nutty man Glenn Beck gives Massa a whole TV hour to confirm all of the Beckster’s …