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.”

A Navy official with knowledge of the matter told KPBS Hegseth ordered Marra be fired. The official, who is not authorized to comment publicly on the case, said the official cause for Marra’s removal was “a loss of trust and confidence in her ability to command,” which is boilerplate rationale used by the Navy to justify all manner of firings.

Marra’s social media use is now under investigation, the official said.

Marra did not respond to a request for comment.

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
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    With shit like this going on, right-wingers who pretend it’s the left censoring speech can fuck themselves sideways with a pineapple.

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    “a loss of trust and confidence in her ability to command,”

    Then why are you still using HER fucking pronouns if they’re such a fucking problem??

    and her bio says she’s the “Navy deputy medical director for transgender healthcare.”

    Oh I think I found the real thing they have an issue with. They just want to remove anyone who gives a single shit about things like quality healthcare.

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    The upside to all of this right-wing censorship is that every time they do it they sell a bit of their claim to being subversive rebels pushing against a stodgy set of norms around speech and independence. Which, like, is a large part of what they’ve built their base on.

    We’re quickly getting back to that 90s era status quo of the right being whining church groups who don’t want to see anyone gay on TV or hear anyone say things that they don’t like politically. The result being that the left gets to look cool and subversive again, which swings the pendulum toward our side.

    The biggest strategic mistake we ever made on the left was coming off as scolding moral purists. This is an opportunity to walk that back, and to reframe the push for our rights as rebellion. “I don’t care what you think, I’m doing what I want” is a much stronger position than “let me tell you why what you say and do is immoral”.

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    it’s absolutely fascinating how the current government does everything they possibly can to promote and reward literal witch hunts.

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    This is a terrible precedent, but I also think that this Medical Doctor will somehow land on her feet.

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      She’s still probably panicking.

      If she’s fired, she could get discharged. If they force a dishonorable discharge on her, that’s a 20 year military pension that just went out the window. I’d be losing my shit if I lost a pension that I was already vested in.

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      her resume is impressive, she wont have trouble getting a MD position in the private sector, which pays more anyways.

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      I’d imagine she is still part of the navy, she’s just no longer in that command position and that position was probably removed.

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      My favorite retaliation so far is simply showing how stupid Chaya Raichik actually is. She didn’t think any of this ideology through. An obvious grifter just saying random things she thinks conservatives want to hear. She has no idea what she’s talking about at all

      https://youtu.be/XL-40gDBRx0

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      She got hired by the Oklahoma State Department of Education to help monitor for “woke” in schools.

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        she walks the streets of Brooklyn relatively frequently without any issue, somehow. actually, i doubt that, she’s made a ton of money from the grift so she probably has an expensive apartment overlooking Manhattan and probably orders everything she needs to fuel her hatred.