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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSan Diego Navy doctor fired, by Hegseth, after right-wing activists find pronouns on social media
San Diego Navy doctor fired after right-wing activists find pronouns on social media | KPBS Public Mediahttps://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2025/09/12/san-diego-navy-doctor-fired-after-right-wing-activists-find-pronouns-on-social-media
A San Diego Navy doctor was removed from command last week after right wing activists began sharing screenshots of her LinkedIn account on X.
Cmdr. Janelle Marra is a Navy physician with 21 years of service. According to her Navy biography, she's spent most of her career in the San Diego area, splitting time between San Diego Naval Medical Center and Camp Pendleton.
On her LinkedIn account, Marra lists she/her pronouns and her bio says she's the "Navy deputy medical director for transgender healthcare."
Libs of Tiktok, an account on X that shares anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracies, tagged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when she quote-tweeted a screenshot of the account saying, "Yikes" and asking Hegseth to "look into this."
That evening, Hegseth in turn quote-tweeted Libs of Tiktok writing, "Pronouns UPDATED: She/Her/Fired."
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San Diego Navy doctor fired, by Hegseth, after right-wing activists find pronouns on social media (Original Post)
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Sep 2025
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Wray a lovely country we have become . HATE all day, every day..... Can Dems do this , too?
Bread and Circuses
Sep 2025
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Bread and Circuses
(2,121 posts)1. Wray a lovely country we have become . HATE all day, every day..... Can Dems do this , too?
Id like to deport every registered Republican to Siberia
lame54
(40,455 posts)2. Embracing that cancel culture
dalton99a
(96,346 posts)3. Kick

NCDem47
(3,558 posts)4. All of thes post-Kirk firings...
Is ANYONE going to say fuck off. Ill see you in court?
miyazaki
(2,712 posts)6. I'm sure it's coming. nt
haele
(15,729 posts)5. It was her director of transgender health care title that got her fired.
Hegseth started the cancellation of that program the first week of his setting up the bar in the SecDef's office. She left it on her Linked-in instead of scrubbing it immediately.
The use of identity tags - (they/them/their), (she/her), (he/him/his) in a professional correspondence or in documents was banned in April.
The cruelty is the point. And they better hope there isn't a hell.