Even Mike Pence knew about Curlee’s identity. Mike Pence didn’t care.
Julia Curlee served under four presidents and through three wars — Baghdad in 2005, 35 countries, the President's Daily Brief.
She's been openly trans at the CIA since 2013, and the Trump White House knew it from day one.
They called her "indispensable."
She briefed the new national security adviser minutes after he was sworn in, and when the administration purged 160 career staffers and realized it had orphaned programs vital to national security, she was the one who called the humiliated experts and begged them to come back.
Then Laura Loomer tweeted a "SCOOP": a "transgender, Biden holdover" was working in NSC intelligence — and asked her followers to hunt down the woman's name.
That same Saturday, Curlee's boss called.
Her tour was over. No reason given. She was still needed Monday, though, to finish the budget — "But please. Be discreet."
This from the same government that banned her from the bathrooms in her own workplace, stripped the insurance covering her healthcare, and rewrote her passport to erase her.
Days later, a Loomer-supplied list of hidden "enemies" hit the president's desk.
Most of the people fired from that list were experts in their fields.
As Curlee writes, an internet provocateur doesn't come up with names on her own — and she doesn't walk them into the Oval.
Someone inside the building helped.
She once wrote under a pseudonym so she could keep serving; now she’s telling her story openly for the same reason.
Because somewhere, she says, a trans kid is watching — and that kid should know they're not alone.
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