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08-01-2013, 11:12 PM
Not due to Biden loud mouth or security reasons:
31 July 2013 Last updated at 19:50 ET
The US Navy Seal who went from Chris to Kristin
By Stuart Hughes BBC News http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69050000/jpg/_69050688_chris_kristin.jpg
Chris Beck spent 20 years as an elite US Navy Seal, often operating in secret behind enemy lines. But the highly decorated serviceman was always hiding a deeper, personal secret - since early childhood, he felt he was a female born into a male body.
As a Navy Seal, Chris Beck's world was tough, macho, sometimes violent. He took part in covert missions from the Pacific Ocean to the Middle East and fought alongside members of Britain's SAS on the Shatt al-Arab waterway near Basra during the 2003 war in Iraq.
But in February, more than a year after retiring from the US Navy, he replaced the photograph on his LinkedIn profile with one of a tall brunette in a white blouse smiling in front of the Stars and Stripes and wrote "I am now taking off all my disguises and letting the world know my true identity as a woman." Chris had become Kristin.
As she awaited the reaction from her former brothers-in-arms, Kristin knew there was no going back from her decision to go public.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23464947
31 July 2013 Last updated at 19:50 ET
The US Navy Seal who went from Chris to Kristin
By Stuart Hughes BBC News http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69050000/jpg/_69050688_chris_kristin.jpg
Chris Beck spent 20 years as an elite US Navy Seal, often operating in secret behind enemy lines. But the highly decorated serviceman was always hiding a deeper, personal secret - since early childhood, he felt he was a female born into a male body.
As a Navy Seal, Chris Beck's world was tough, macho, sometimes violent. He took part in covert missions from the Pacific Ocean to the Middle East and fought alongside members of Britain's SAS on the Shatt al-Arab waterway near Basra during the 2003 war in Iraq.
But in February, more than a year after retiring from the US Navy, he replaced the photograph on his LinkedIn profile with one of a tall brunette in a white blouse smiling in front of the Stars and Stripes and wrote "I am now taking off all my disguises and letting the world know my true identity as a woman." Chris had become Kristin.
As she awaited the reaction from her former brothers-in-arms, Kristin knew there was no going back from her decision to go public.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23464947