Collections by Michelle Brown WSG Veteran Char Davenport

Individuals enlist for military service for a multitude of reasons but all in service to this country. Many, including LGBTQ service members, make the ultimate sacrifice. Each year on November 11th we celebrate Veterans Day honoring and thanking them for their service. In a series of tweets, Pres. Trump announced that transgender people would be banned from serving in the US military “in any capacity” attempting to reverse an Obama-era decision to support those who would live openly and authentically as transgender while in service of their country. A federal judge has partially blocked enforcement of key provisions of Trump's memorandum banning transgender people serving in the military while LGBTQ and human rights organizations challenge its enforcement in the courts.

Char Davenport  a Navy Veteran from the Vietnam era conflict. She is alos a member of the trransgender community.

She is the Michigan Field Organizer for the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Faith-based Gender Justice and Allyship Project. She has helped pass non-discrimination ordinances across Michigan and works with the National Center for Transgender Equality. You'll often find her in Washington DC lobbying her representatives, including a recent trip to support measures to curb gun violence.

She studied Journalism, English and Creative Writing. She was a journalist based in Washington DC before becoming a leading market research analyst in the photographic and digital printing industries. She has taught at high schools and colleges in Michigan and New York. 
Char has dedicated her life to achieving equality for the transgender community in the wok place, health care, public accommodations, voter rights and education helping train dozens of new advocates and leaders in the Trans-Activism movement.
Thank you Char, and all veterans, for your service!