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Veteran Activist: As the new head of OutServe-SLDN, Allyson Robinson

As the new head of OutServe-SLDN, Allyson Robinson is opening new fronts in the fight for full equality in the military

Interview by Justin Snow

Allyson Robinson has never been one to take the easy route. She applied three times before being accepted to West Point. And when she came out as transgender, it wasn't in the confines of a liberal bastion like New York or San Francisco, but in Waco, Texas. While she was in divinity school.


As the new executive director of the recently combined OutServe-Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, Robinson faces an uphill battle of refocusing the movement on the inequalities still faced by LGBT servicemembers.

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