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Pete Hegseth doesn't even think cis straight women, like Nancy Lacore, belong in the military, so he certainly doesn't think trans women, like Bree Fram, belong there. He booted her out and now she, like Lacore, is running for Congress. Her campaign manager is also a trans woman who was kicked out of the Space Force.
Fram served for 18 years in the Air Force, during which time he/she was deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2023, she transferred to the Space Force, where she served another 5 years. At the time she was kicked out of the Space Force, Fram was a bird colonel and the highest-ranking trans person in the entire Department of Defense. Here she is holding a photo of herself as a colonel:
Her path to Congress will be potentially more difficult than Lacore's, but for a different reason. She is running in VA-11, in Fairfax County, close to D.C. The district is currently D+18, so that part is easy. The hard part is winning the Democratic primary against the incumbent, Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA), who won a special election on Sept. 9, 2025, to fill the seat of his former boss, the late Gerry Connolly.
Beating an incumbent is never easy, especially a fairly young one (43), when Democrats are prizing youth. Fram is in her mid-40s. Walkinshaw is a slightly left-of-center moderate; Fram is much further left. It is Bernie vs. Hillary, part 902, only "Bernie" is a gay trans women and "Hillary" is a straight cis man. That makes it more complicated, to put it mildly. Walkinshaw is on the House Oversight Committee and the Homeland Security Committee and is doing his best to get all the Epstein files out there, something that plays well with many Democrats. He has also taken up the cause of the many federal workers who live in his district.
The new Virginia map is more favorable to Fram than the old one, so she is actively campaigning for it.
A poll of the district taken for Fram's campaign has 43% for Walkinshaw, 9% for Fram, and 48% undecided. However,
after being presented with information about the two candidates, including Bram's long military service, Walkinshaw was
at 42% and Fram at 21%. On March 31, Walkinshaw had $800,000 in the bank and Fram had $135,000. Since Walkinshaw doesn't
need to save his pennies nickels for the general election in such a blue district, even with the new map, he can
spend the whole $800K on the primary. (V)