COMMISSION ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION & GENDER IDENTITY

    LGBT Veterans

    Resources on this page include: Webinar, Powerpoint presentation, and links to military documents. 

    Webinar: Restore Honor, Restore Dignity:
    Updating Veteran Certificates

    Presented by the ABA SOGI Commission, in conjunction with OUTSERVE

    This free webinar program will train attorneys on how to help LGBT veterans—transgender veterans in changing the name and gender marker on their military records, and LGB veterans who were discharged under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and prior policies in removing the offensive evidence of those policies from their discharge paperwork.

    Currently, there is no publicly available guidance from the Department of Defense on how to update your information in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) and on the DD214 Military Discharge Record.

    This program is part of ABA President Linda Klein’s veteran’s service projects.

    Panelists:

    • Peter Perkowski, Counsel, OutServe-SLDN, Inc.
    • Deana Cairo, Partner, Tucker Ellis  LLP
    • Stephen Lessard, Senior Associate, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

    View Powerpoint presentation for webinar

    Air Force Documents:

    Air Force Discharge Upgrade

    Air Force Trans Name Change:

    Navy Documents:

    Navy Discharge Upgrades    :

    Army Documents: 

    Army Trans Name Change: