What needs to happen.... The treatment I see of women is very poor. I was given the position of senior boatswain on board my ship. It was taken away from me, and given to a male. Even though I proved to be a really good sailor, this person was told, “You're now in charge of the ship.” I was up on the high horse, and then brought down almost immediately, due to their timing.
Their excuse was that the other person had been in this unit longer, even though I have 14 years in the military, and that person only has six. They were using that as the excuse, but I felt deeply that it was because I was female. I was putting complaints against people left, right and centre for mistreating me as a transgendered female. I felt that I was being discriminated against. I brought this up and, once again, nothing happened. I still fight to this day to get my position back, and to this day, I don't have it back.
With all the negative effects on the LGBT community in the military, I have now been taken off the boats, once again, due to mental distress. I was told that if I died, I'd be buried as a male, because my chromosomes don't match.
Nothing was done to the member. It hasn't been a very fun time.
As for the treatment of the women inside, I've noticed the same thing. I've talked to other females, and they have noticed that positions have been given away to their male counterparts.
There was a ship that was completely female—the whole deck department, which is all boatswains. They tried that for a time. That no longer exists. I don't know why that ended, but maybe everybody got posted out, or whatever.
That's pretty much all I have.