President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has named transgender veteran Shawn Skelly as a member of its agency review team that will evaluate the Department of Defense.
Skelly co-founded Out in National Security, an affinity group for LGBTQ national security professionals, and served on active duty in the U.S.
Navy for 20 years as a naval flight officer. Ted Kaufman, a former U.S. senator and co-chair of the Biden-Harris transition team, said in a statement on Wednesday that members of the agency review team would rigorously evaluate operations of federal agencies as Joe Biden prepares to take office as president. “Our nation is grappling with a pandemic, an economic crisis, urgent calls for racial justice, and the existential threat of