Bree Fram
@breefram.bsky.social
Retired Space Force Colonel, Rocket Scientist, Speaker, Author, 🏳️⚧️🚀
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At the same time, the Pentagon is moving with extraordinary urgency to expel highly qualified transgender service members—including pilots.
No evidence. No misconduct. No failures. Predetermined verdicts. A political purge dressed up as due process. Prejudice and fear wielded by people who needed an enemy to demonize. All of it issued under the signature of a president who puts self before service. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate (Gift Article)
The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
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“I think you saved her life. She’s doing really well now. Do you remember talking to her?”
The Conversation I Don't Remember
Hate documents itself. Good often vanishes unless somebody puts it on the record.
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Come say hello at the Lake Anne Farmer's Market! I'm addition to the great food, you can support wonderful candidates, learn about our constitutional amendments, and register to vote.
Breaking: Judge Ana Reyes has demanded an explanation from the Trump administration regarding Pete Hegseth’s "High-T" troops since the Pentagon has said in court that hormone therapy for trans troops makes them unfit to serve and is too expensive. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
Judge in trans military ban case demands Pentagon explain Hegseth’s testosterone double standard
Judge Ana Reyes is demanding answers about a policy that offers testosterone to some troops while citing hormone care to remove others.
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I'm really excited to endorse Beth Macy for Congress! The amazing folks in Virginia's 6th have an awesome opportunity to elect someone who will represent all of their interests.
In the 1960s the military built its cockpits around one body type. Result: 44% of women, and 74% of Black women, were engineered out of the pilot's seat before they ever applied. My first episode as co-host of @thesteadystate.org Sentinel Podcast is about the woman who helped changed that. 🧵
John Lewis showed up for people who didn't expect him — including queer folks he stood beside when it carried real risk. He was intersectional before we had the word for it. He knew we all do better when we all do better. That's the example I try to live up to.
Spoke at @hrindivisible.bsky.social Voting Rights Town Hall this #GoodTroubleLivesOn weekend. John Lewis lived intersectionality before we had the word — and his legacy is on Virginia's Nov ballot: marriage equality, voting rights restoration, reproductive freedom. Carry on the good trouble.
This is beyond heartbreaking. The headline says, "Then a teen died." She won't be the last as states legislate hate. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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I was asked why I stay public when trans people are being treated as public enemy number one.
A trenchant—and beautifully written—expose of the hypocrisy Hegseth’s “High-T” initiative, its personal and professional consequences to our men and women in uniform—and the very real strategic consequences to our nation. From The Steady State’s own Bree Fram. A MUST READ. zurl.co/FmJ9i
Parade Strength
Pete Hegseth’s testosterone initiative exposes a Pentagon more interested in performing strength than building it.
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Join us tonight for a great discussion! 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, July 17, at United Christian Parish, 11508 North Shore Drive in Reston patch.com/virginia/res...
Reston Town Hall To Focus On Voting Rights, Honor John Lewis Legacy
Reston town hall Friday will discuss voting rights, recent legal changes and civic engagement in honor of John Lewis.
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In this economy? With gas prices like these? Finally, a morale program measured in cost per flying hour.
From the Napoleonic Wars to a wargame I lived through, this is my most detailed case yet against Hegseth’s vision, and it's about everyone willing to serve: women, Black men, transgender troops, and anyone who doesn't show up in a Hegseth workout video.
Parade Strength
Pete Hegseth’s testosterone initiative exposes a Pentagon more interested in performing strength than building it.
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The military separated people like me for taking hormones to be our best selves. Today, the Secretary of Defense announced a program encouraging hormone therapy so troops can be their best selves.
Whether a 20% fee or the Gulf states making “MASSIVE” investments in the United States doesn't matter. It's a racket. open.substack.com/pub/breefram...
The Pirates’ Old Rate
A Navy built to end protection rackets should not become one.
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This weekend is Good Trouble Lives On, honoring John Lewis's legacy of courage and the ongoing fight for voting rights. I'm speaking at the Voting Rights Town Hall Friday (5–7, United Christian Parish, Reston) and joining the Voting Rights Visibility Event Saturday, 11-12, Rt7 & Gosnell Road, Tysons
A military that charges for protection has a name: mercenaries. The Hessians, hired soldiers, were the monsters in America's founding ghost stories. The Headless Horseman was a Hessian. That's how deep the fear ran. So now our Navy takes 20% off the top?
“Carry on, Patriots.” Again. Hegseth is not restoring a warrior ethos. He's destroying a professional one. open.substack.com/pub/breefram...
The Secretary of Selective Standards
The hypocrisy of Hegseth's two-tier military
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Graham Platner just ended his campaign. It's going to be a scramble to replace him. I won a fight with an ornery seagull a few years ago for possession of a picnic table in Maine, does that qualify me? It's more than I can say here in VA, where I lose fights for a chair to an ornery cat.
@advocate.com published my July 4th essay today. Criticism isn't the opposite of patriotism. It's the evidence of it. America turns 250 today. The Constitution turns 250 in 2037. Here's what I think we owe the eleven years between. www.advocate.com/opinion/maki...
Patriotism means criticizing America and making it better
The founders gave us more than a government. They gave us the right and the responsibility to improve it, writes Bree Fram.
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Senator Duckworth is right. Difference is not danger. It's how we see what others miss. Everyone deserves pride in who they are, what they've fought through, and where they can still go.
Tammy Duckworth@duckworth.senate.gov · last mo.Let's be clear: our disabilities are not a weakness, they're our superpower. Damn proud to belong to this community and fight for a world where accessibility is the default—not an afterthought. Happy Disability Pride Month!
The Pride flags came down. Today, the American and Virginia flags went up. I've never believed they compete. They fly for the same promise: a work in progress, still unfulfilled, asking each generation to realize it. Here's to the next 250 years of doing the work.
Ten years ago today I came out, when the military's trans ban fell. I thought it was a dawn. Now it seems like high tide. Today the Court ruled against trans kids in sports. We are still fighting over who belongs. A story of a decade and why you're needed in the fights to come.
Difference Is Not Danger
Ten Years Ago Today, I Came Out. We’re Still Fighting Over Who Belongs.
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While relieved that SCOTUS upheld birthright citizenship, I am again crushed that they see trans people, at best, as second-class citizens who can be singled out for discrimination.
