Bree Fram (she/her) is an author, podcast, host, keynote speaker, and active duty colonel and astronautical engineer in the United States Space Force. Bree also co-leads the Department of the Air Force LGBTQ+ Initiatives Team, dedicated to eliminating barriers to LGBTQ+ military service in the Air and Space Force. She is a passionate advocate and speaker on diversity and inclusion, leadership, and LGBTQ+ issues.
Bree came out publicly as transgender on the day the transgender ban in the military was dropped in 2016. She transitioned while in a command position and served through the re-imposition of a transgender ban from 2019-2021. She is currently one of the highest ranking out transgender officers in the United States military. Bree served as President of SPARTA, a non-profit that advocates and educates about transgender military service.
Bree has appeared on national and international news media, including ABC and NBC Nightly news, France 24, BBC, PBS News Hour, and NPR. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Military Times, Inkstick, and LGBTQ Nation.
Bree is an editor of With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in Their Own Words from NYU press which released in November 2021 and an author of Forging Queer Leaders: How the LGBTQIA+ Community Creates Impact from Adversity, a forthcoming work on LGBTQ+ Leadership Development from Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Bree came out publicly as transgender on the day the transgender ban in the military was dropped in 2016. She transitioned while in a command position and served through the re-imposition of a transgender ban from 2019-2021. She is currently one of the highest ranking out transgender officers in the United States military. Bree served as President of SPARTA, a non-profit that advocates and educates about transgender military service.
Bree has appeared on national and international news media, including ABC and NBC Nightly news, France 24, BBC, PBS News Hour, and NPR. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Military Times, Inkstick, and LGBTQ Nation.
Bree is an editor of With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in Their Own Words from NYU press which released in November 2021 and an author of Forging Queer Leaders: How the LGBTQIA+ Community Creates Impact from Adversity, a forthcoming work on LGBTQ+ Leadership Development from Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
For more about Bree visit her website at www.breefram.com