I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.

The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed "experts."

If an organization produces a document, it should be made public as soon as possible.

Visibility is not equality.