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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(15,008 posts)
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 03:27 PM Sep 2025

San 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 Media
https://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 OP
Wray a lovely country we have become . HATE all day, every day..... Can Dems do this , too? Bread and Circuses Sep 2025 #1
Embracing that cancel culture lame54 Sep 2025 #2
Kick dalton99a Sep 2025 #3
All of thes post-Kirk firings... NCDem47 Sep 2025 #4
I'm sure it's coming. nt miyazaki Sep 2025 #6
It was her director of transgender health care title that got her fired. haele Sep 2025 #5

Bread and Circuses

(2,121 posts)
1. Wray a lovely country we have become . HATE all day, every day..... Can Dems do this , too?
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 03:44 PM
Sep 2025

I’d like to deport every registered Republican to Siberia

NCDem47

(3,523 posts)
4. All of thes post-Kirk firings...
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 04:16 PM
Sep 2025

Is ANYONE going to say “fuck off. I’ll see you in court?”

haele

(15,600 posts)
5. It was her director of transgender health care title that got her fired.
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 04:21 PM
Sep 2025

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.

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