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For transgender service member at Offutt, the tears just kept coming after Trump's tweet
By Steve Liewer
At first, Staff Sgt. Ashleigh Buch didn’t know what to make of the flood of sympathy that arrived on her cellphone as she got up Wednesday morning.
The first transgender airman to fully transition at Offutt Air Force Base, she hadn’t heard about President Trump’s tweets announcing plans to bar all transgender troops from serving “in any capacity in the U.S. Military.”
She logged onto her computer and read the news.
“It was a rush of emotion, pretty much every kind of emotion,” Buch, 32, said in an interview with The World-Herald. “The tears just kept coming and coming. It seemed so surreal. It was out of the blue.”
FULL story, photos, & video: http://www.omaha.com/news/military/for-transgender-service-member-at-offutt-the-tears-just-kept/article_f04d7a12-7248-11e7-93a9-7f1573fdea4e.html
