A transsexual CIA officer writes anonymously to Blade (America’s LGBT news source) to praise the CIA and “her” special role in it.

For most of my life, I never thought I would have the opportunity to be who I always knew I was. But it finally happened, and for that I am infinitely grateful for the empowerment of all kinds of identities, not just mine, that the social progress that took place over my lifetime fostered.

Before we go any further, I should probably mention that I’m a trans woman who is living her absolute best life as a proud intelligence officer at CIA. Truly living the dream. The American dream.

Well to be fair, “she” is a better representation of the CIA (and perhaps America as a whole) than the James Bond type figures of old.

And every night when I leave after a long day of having the privilege of contributing to our national security, I head back out into a divided America, one that feels increasingly unlike what we strive to model here at CIA on a daily basis.

Is CIA perfect? Nope. But are we better than we were a decade ago? Yes. Five decades ago? Absolutely. I’ve been here long enough to not just see the change, but to also be it.

Didn’t the CIA plot to assassinate journalist Julian Assange for publishing information given to him by a transgendered “woman?” So much for solidarity.

We need more people who thrive as their authentic selves. We need more diverse perspectives contributing to a collective culture while still honoring their own. We need more coming together for common causes. We need more of this at every level of our society to help us keep getting closer to the ideal that America represents, an America that is admittedly still under construction, an America that all my colleagues and I have sworn a solemn oath to defend as we build it.

We’re striving for that here at CIA each and every day and if that’s a mission you believe in, please consider accepting it and join in however you can.

The author is a transgender CIA officer. The Blade is withholding her identity as she works undercover.

Read the whole piece here. 

The fact that the CIA is using anonymous transexuals to recruit is certainly bizarre (though, as mentioned, entirely fitting for the state of the CIA and America itself). But is there method to the madness?

Then again, it could be still simpler in the case of the CIA. Maybe there is something about the trans experience that is conducive to infiltrating a foreign community under the guise of being someone else in order to  secretly exploit them for the sake of clandestine services.