Transgender service members are deployable and effective.

Congress cannot let the administration's discriminatory impulses win out.

You need to know that Mr. Trump's personal lawyers reviewed and edited my statement to Congress about the timing of the Moscow Tower negotiations.

Transgender service members around the world have done the same thing, add to the readiness and lethality of the United States military.

Not allowing transgender service members to join the military would cost us recruits at a time so few Americans are willing to serve.

Who was on the Panel of Experts?

I do not experiment with command positions. They are too important.

I feel strongly that any transgender person who can meet occupational standards should be allowed to serve in our Armed Forces.

I believe that the transgender service ban is discriminatory, unconstitutional, and self-defeating.

Who did the Panel consult with?

Being here in the same room as senior Defense Department officials, in front of the Congress, representing yourselves and your fellow transgender service members, even in your civilian capacities, takes tremendous courage.

As Congresswoman Speier has very succinctly and very correctly identified, there is a huge problem with sexual assault at the academies.