Col. David J. Schroer served with distinction in the U.S. Army for 25 years, commanding a Special Forces battalion during combat operations in Haiti and Rwanda and later directing a Special Operations unit charged with tracking and targeting international terrorist organizations. Shortly after retiring from the Army in 2004, Schroer applied for a job as a terrorism research analyst with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. Impressed by Schroer’s credentials, the library quickly extended a job offer, agreeing to his salary demands.
What the hiring manager didn’t know was Schroer is a transgendered person–someone whose gender identity is different from his or her assigned sex at birth–and about to legally become Diane J. Schroer, dress in feminine clothing and in every way present as a woman.
