Gabriel Silverman, Fiona Dawson and Jamie Coughlin’s Award Winning Film

The 2018 SXSW Audience Award-winning feature film debut by Gabriel Silverman, Fiona Dawson, & Jamie Coughlin, TransMilitary follows the Emmy-nominated short film Transgender, at War and in Love.

Around 15,500 transgender people serve in the U.S. military (notably the largest transgender employer in the U.S.), where they must conceal their gender identity because military policies ban their service. TransMilitary chronicles the lives of four individuals (Senior Airman Logan Ireland, Corporal Laila Villanueva, Captain Jennifer Peace & First Lieutenant El Cook) defending their country’s freedom while fighting for their own.

Even though the ban was lifted in 2016, they put their careers and their families’ livelihoods on the line by coming out as transgender to top brass officials in the Pentagon in hopes of maintaining the equal right to serve.