First Openly Transgender Army Officer Indicted for Trying to Give Soldiers’ Medical Info to Russia

[Woody]

Stunning and brave. 

 

Jamie Lee Henry (Brightest Young Things)

 

The Army’s first openly transgender officer was indicted Thursday on charges of trying to provide American soldiers’ medical information to the Russian government.

A federal grand jury in Baltimore indicted Jamie Lee Henry and his wife, Anna Gabrielian, on charges of conspiracy and wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information. According to prosecutors, the couple met last month with an undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian diplomat and offered medical information from Fort Bragg, the home of the military’s elite Delta Force.

Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins University, told the undercover agent during an Aug. 17 meeting that "she was motivated by patriotism toward Russia to provide any assistance she could to Russia, even if it meant being fired or going to jail," according to the indictment. Gabrielian gave the undercover agent medical information on a spouse of someone who works in the Office of Naval Intelligence, and "highlighted" a medical issue that "Russia could exploit."

Henry, a doctor at Fort Bragg, gave the undercover agent information on five patients at the military facility, according to the indictment, first reported by the Baltimore Banner.

Henry has been praised as a pioneer of the transgender movement after coming out as transgender in an interview with BuzzFeed News in 2015. Henry claimed to be the first known active-duty Army officer to come out as transgender, and the first to legally change their name while in service.

Henry told BuzzFeed his experience transitioning helped him in the medical field.

"I find my trans experience has allowed me to relate to people, because all of us suffer, and I could relate to people’s suffering. I’m able to comfort people that feel isolated and lost and alone and broken," Henry said.

Henry lamented in another interview that year about the lack of privacy afforded transgender people receiving medical care.

"I felt very vulnerable while being treated as a patient in the same hospital I worked as a physician. What made it worse was that, as a soldier, my medical records were not private, and when the question of mental illness came up, I felt stark naked," Henry told Bright Young Things in 2015.

According to prosecutors, Henry told the undercover agent he offered to join the Russian military after the invasion of Ukraine, but was rejected due to lack of combat experience. Henry allegedly told the agent that he believed "the United States is using Ukrainians as a proxy for their own hatred toward Russia."

Gabrielian and Henry, who were married in 2015, also discussed a plan for their children should they be arrested. Gabrielian told the agent she wanted their children to "have a nice flight to Turkey to go on vacation because I don't want to end in jail here with my kids being hostages over my head."

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[HipKat]

Shocking!

[ICRockets2]

2 hours ago, HipKat said:

Shocking!

Do you believe that it's morally acceptable to believe implicitly "trans people are inherently traitors to the nation" if you are simply too lazy to type it out explicitly?  Do you believe it's morally acceptable to do it explicitly, as well?  I'm just curious what your actual exact moral line is on bigotry.

[HipKat]

5 hours ago, ICRockets2 said:

Do you believe that it's morally acceptable to believe implicitly "trans people are inherently traitors to the nation" if you are simply too lazy to type it out explicitly?  Do you believe it's morally acceptable to do it explicitly, as well?  I'm just curious what your actual exact moral line is on bigotry.

First off, who's sock account are you again?

Second, I've been branded a racist here, try to keep up.

Third, 99% of people who claim to be Trans, in my opinion, are full of shit and are looking for an excuse to get away with emulating the gender that won't give them any attention otherwise and made-up Gender identifiers like Gender-Neutral, Non-Binary, Gender-Queer - whatever the FUCK that's supposed to mean -are also nonsense that only exist to placate weak-willed people who just need to feel special.

It's not lost on me that most of the people who claim to fall under any of these BS identities are many times fat as fuck, ugly as hell and social outcasts.

[ICRockets2]

1 minute ago, HipKat said:

First off, who's sock account are you again?

Second, I've been branded a racist here, try to keep up.

Third, 99% of people who claim to be Trans, in my opinion, are full of shit and are looking for an excuse to get away with emulating the gender that won't give them any attention otherwise and made-up Gender identifiers like Gender-Neutral, Non-Binary, Gender-Queer - whatever the FUCK that's supposed to mean -are also nonsense that only exist to placate weak-willed people who just need to feel special.

It's not lost on me that most of the people who claim to fall under any of these BS identities are many times fat as fuck, ugly as hell and social outcasts.

1) Nobody's

2) I know.  You are a racist.  I've been checking in every couple weeks and I see the way you talk about Spiked's wife.  I'm sure you think you can evade the charge of being racist if your racism is primarily comprised of "jokes" but that isn't how socialization works.  

3) Baseless claims that do nothing but help Republicans justify their intentions to treat the LGBTQ+ community exactly the same way the Nazis did.  You realize their first book burning was a bunch of trans medical research, yeah?  

 

[HipKat]

3 minutes ago, ICRockets2 said:

1) Nobody's

2) I know.  You are a racist.  I've been checking in every couple weeks and I see the way you talk about Spiked's wife.  I'm sure you think you can evade the charge of being racist if your racism is primarily comprised of "jokes" but that isn't how socialization works.  

3) Baseless claims that do nothing but help Republicans justify their intentions to treat the LGBTQ+ community exactly the same way the Nazis did.  You realize their first book burning was a bunch of trans medical research, yeah?  

 

1, yes you are

2, Fuck Spike, he earned those comments

3, my comments have no political affiliation. Try again

[ICRockets2]

2 minutes ago, HipKat said:

1, yes you are

2, Fuck Spike, he earned those comments

3, my comments have no political affiliation. Try again

1) No I'm not, I'm who I say I am on a new account because I sabotaged my ability to sign in on the old one.  

2) If you call me a shithead and I kick your wife in the throat, I can't say I did it because YOU earned that response.  

3) I know they don't.  That doesn't mean they have no political EFFECT.  The EFFECT of your comments is to embolden Nazis.  I'm telling you this because I think we agree that Nazis are bad and shouldn't be emboldened.  Right?  

 

[HipKat]

55 minutes ago, ICRockets2 said:

1) No I'm not, I'm who I say I am on a new account because I sabotaged my ability to sign in on the old one.  

2) If you call me a shithead and I kick your wife in the throat, I can't say I did it because YOU earned that response.  

3) I know they don't.  That doesn't mean they have no political EFFECT.  The EFFECT of your comments is to embolden Nazis.  I'm telling you this because I think we agree that Nazis are bad and shouldn't be emboldened.  Right?  

 

I really don’t understand where Nazis even fall into this conversation.

As for Spike, fuck him. He came out here disrupting and attacking the board and everybody who posts here. Him and his boyfriend and I have no sympathy for either of them. They’re both hypocrites

[ICRockets2]

13 minutes ago, HipKat said:

I really don’t understand where Nazis even fall into this conversation.

 

Your anti-trans bigotry.  Seriously, the Nazis' opening salvo was an attack on the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin.  This was in 1933, a year before the Night of Long Knives and 5 years before Kristallnacht.  They raided a medical research institute, burned ~20,000 books/documents many of which were related to trans studies, and murdered the first woman to ever receive a successful sex reassignment surgery.  Hating trans people just makes the people who want to MURDER trans people feel like that desire is socially validated.  If you don't want trans people genocided, you need to stop hating them as a demographic.  I know that's inconvenient for you, but it is how society works.

[RichJ]

9 hours ago, ICRockets2 said:

Do you believe that it's morally acceptable to believe implicitly "trans people are inherently traitors to the nation" if you are simply too lazy to type it out explicitly?  Do you believe it's morally acceptable to do it explicitly, as well?  I'm just curious what your actual exact moral line is on bigotry.

would it have been better if he said an American traitor was busted for giving information to the russians and he happens to be a transgender? 

[f8ta1ity54]

4 hours ago, ICRockets2 said:

Your anti-trans bigotry.  Seriously, the Nazis' opening salvo was an attack on the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin.  This was in 1933, a year before the Night of Long Knives and 5 years before Kristallnacht.  They raided a medical research institute, burned ~20,000 books/documents many of which were related to trans studies, and murdered the first woman to ever receive a successful sex reassignment surgery.  Hating trans people just makes the people who want to MURDER trans people feel like that desire is socially validated.  If you don't want trans people genocided, you need to stop hating them as a demographic.  I know that's inconvenient for you, but it is how society works.

[HipKat]

6 hours ago, ICRockets2 said:

Your anti-trans bigotry.  Seriously, the Nazis' opening salvo was an attack on the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin.  This was in 1933, a year before the Night of Long Knives and 5 years before Kristallnacht.  They raided a medical research institute, burned ~20,000 books/documents many of which were related to trans studies, and murdered the first woman to ever receive a successful sex reassignment surgery.  Hating trans people just makes the people who want to MURDER trans people feel like that desire is socially validated.  If you don't want trans people genocided, you need to stop hating them as a demographic.  I know that's inconvenient for you, but it is how society works.

You mean anti-men getting a sexual thrill from wearing women's clothes, dressing like women because real women won't acknowledge them or just suffering from mental disorders?? Or wanting people who claim to be trans to get a grip on reality?

Umm, yep!

Gosh, I wish I was born a woman so I could pretty much get whatever the fuck I want, if I play it right.

Hey!!! I must be trans!!!!

 

[ICRockets2]

4 hours ago, RichJ said:

would it have been better if he said an American traitor was busted for giving information to the russians and he happens to be a transgender? 

Yep, that would be fine.  I don't have a huge problem with the way the thread was framed because technically none of the information is inaccurate as far as I can tell from very briefly looking into the story.  My issue was with Hip's nonsense comment, sarcastically calling it shocking as though you can just look at a trans person and say "it is statistically likely that this person will try to sell national secrets".  That's nonsense that no transphobe on the planet can say with a straight face was a stereotype they thought existed prior to this news happening.

[ICRockets2]

40 minutes ago, HipKat said:

You mean anti-men getting a sexual thrill from wearing women's clothes, dressing like women because real women won't acknowledge them or just suffering from mental disorders?? Or wanting people who claim to be trans to get a grip on reality?

Umm, yep!

Gosh, I wish I was born a woman so I could pretty much get whatever the fuck I want, if I play it right.

Hey!!! I must be trans!!!!

 

Do you want a trans genocide?

[HipKat]

55 minutes ago, ICRockets2 said:

Do you want a trans genocide?

It would have no effect on anybody I know so what ever

[ICRockets2]

Just now, HipKat said:

It would have no effect on anybody I know so what ever

Are there genocides you would oppose because they affect people you know?