The Trump Administration Wanted Her Expertise, Just Not Her

Editor’s Note: Read Julia Curlee’s full essay here. Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts When Julia Curlee was a kid growing up in Hawaii, she dreamed of becoming an intelligence officer. In 2007, when she took her oath standing on the marble CIA seal, she achieved that goal. But she had another childhood dream too: She’d always had “an unshakable belief that I should have been born a woman.” In 2013, Julia Curlee became the first CIA officer to…