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.
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”.
wha?
it’s absolutely fascinating how the current government does everything they possibly can to promote and reward literal witch hunts.
Guess they have plenty of doctors in the Navy. Fuck em, then.
This is a terrible precedent, but I also think that this Medical Doctor will somehow land on her feet.
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.
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.
Yep and the psychological impact will be devastating. The military becomes part of your identity, and she’s devoted her life to it.
her resume is impressive, she wont have trouble getting a MD position in the private sector, which pays more anyways.
and now she doesn’t have to work for the regime any longer, win/win
What a perverse world. Fired for being civil.
The left, those who promote inclusivity and acceptance, are accused of hate. How odd.
Everyday we inch closer to handmaids tale irl.
Literal grammar Nazis
It’s grammar vs nazis.
ZOMG! Not…pronouns! Will the scourge never end?!
When is somebody finally going to retaliate against Libs of TikTok?
She got hired by the Oklahoma State Department of Education to help monitor for “woke” in schools.
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
chaiya rachik. is her name, i doubtful, since shes primararily y funded by putin.
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.
Since they have no issue doxxing others I think we should know who they are
We do, it’s Chaya Raichik, this is not particularly hidden information, she spoke at CPAC
Lawsuit coming
Is that even possible for a military leader in this situation?
She wasn’t kicked out of the Navy, just removed from that command. As far as suits for wrongful discharge…all the folks kicked out under DADT show that the answer is a later administration can change the status of your discharge but you’ll likely never see any benefits
with so few navy doctors to begin with, her being very accomplished is only going to hurt the navy when they need doctors.
We better find out.
These Nazis are scared of grammar.
They would be if they could read
And we always thought grammer nazis were bad…
And WE kept telling you we were the good guys. But did you listen? Oh no, you didn’t 😤
Now look where we are at! 🫣😡
Americans are brutally embarrassing and stupid.
That’s the price to pay to be free
Which county that just had an anti-immigration parade are you in?
Whatabout whatabout whatabout whatabout?
Every country has idiots. Not every country elects them power. Twice.
The country has tens of millions of idiots, yes, but please acknowledge that Republicans have only won elections by cheating, for decades.
free speech? what a joke
“Free speech absolutist” is a codeword for hypocrit radical authoritarian who will persecute outgroups.
The fact that she felt the need to put that on there’s funny and the fact that she got fired is funny. This whole world is fucked.
What’s actually funny is how yall swallow this performative jackassery whole, as if it’s actually improving military readiness or ‘lethality’, instead of demanding accountability from government. Super glad that they’ve clearly solved all the big issues like the PFAS contamination on multiple bases poisoning soldiers and their families, or the entirety of the VA dumpster fire, or the Pentagon not being able to pass an audit for decades.
But nah, let’s fire a 21 year careerist because some terminally online losers got triggered by pronouns and her billet. I’m sure those considering re-enlisting won’t mind the risk of losing their pension overnight because Twitter demanded a blood sacrifice.
What exactly are you referring to with “put that on there”?
Who knows! This is the internet! I could be a bot, or a foreign state actor. Even an alien!
No explanation then. Just bigotry.
Name calling? Yikes.
Care to explain away your top comment?
To you? No.
How about to me?
Because…?
How do people like you, who get massive downvotes because they’re obviously wrong, gel with that in your head?
I’m serious. How do you see that, and then pick one comment and try to deny what You’ve said?
In many instances it makes perfect sense. What about all the people with gender-neutral names like “Sam,” “Jean,” “DJ,” etc etc. Am I supposed to guess their pronouns? What about jobs where people work with internationals who may not be familiar with the gender that is typically associated with English names? And perhaps most importantly, why not make pronoun signatures commonplace as a low-effort way to help transitioning people to feel welcomed in the workplace instead of pointlessly alienating an already shit-upon population? In other words, why be a dick? It’s more fun to be cool.
It’s more fun to be cool.
Well… psychologically, unfortunately, it’s more fun to be edgy and disruptive, which is why being a Republican culture warrior, Internet troll, or ragebaiter is so common.
The right is just an empty, meaningless shell. Nothing of value, just mean spiritedness
