Bree Fram Lieutenant Colonel United States Space Force

Bree Fram is the President of SPARTA and an active duty lieutenant colonel in the US Space Force. SPARTA advocates and educates about transgender military service and is dedicated to the support and professional development of over 1300 transgender service members. A member of SPARTA since 2014, she focuses on policy and advocacy work to develop a more inclusive military. 

Lt Col Fram came out as transgender on the day the transgender ban in the military was dropped in 2016. She is currently the highest ranking out transgender officer in the Department of Defense. Bree is assigned to the Pentagon to lead space acquisition policy development for the Department of the Air Force 

Bree previously served in a wide variety of Air Force positions including a Research and Development command position and an oversight role for all Air Force security cooperation activity with Iraq. In earlier assignments, Lt Col Fram served in the Air Force Directorate of Strategic Plans, as a Legislative Fellow at the US Capitol on the staff of Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo, several tours as a program manager for satellite and technology programs, and deployed to Qatar and Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Bree has appeared on ABC and NBC Nightly news, PBS News Hour, and NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Military Times, Inkstick, and LGBTQ Nation. She is the co-editor of the book With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in Their Own Words from NYU press which released in November 2021.