Bonert was the first openly trans woman in the German military.
After marriage and two daughters, Bonert, in 1999, then a captain in the Luftwaffe, completed surgical transition as Pamela Helen Bonert. The Bundeswehr personnel management transferred her to the medical division, since before 2001, women were permitted in the Bundeswehr only in the medical and musical sections.
Bonhert retired from the Bundeswehr in 2004, although by then procedural instructions for women and for trans persons and their acceptance in the Bundeswehr were being issued.
Bonert had written an autobiography, and it was to be published in 1998. It was to be titled Glücklich (=happy), however Bonert parted from the publisher and book was self published in 2001 with a different title.
Since 2008 Helen has been managing a branch office of the White Ring association which supports victims of crime.
After marriage and two daughters, Bonert, in 1999, then a captain in the Luftwaffe, completed surgical transition as Pamela Helen Bonert. The Bundeswehr personnel management transferred her to the medical division, since before 2001, women were permitted in the Bundeswehr only in the medical and musical sections.
Bonhert retired from the Bundeswehr in 2004, although by then procedural instructions for women and for trans persons and their acceptance in the Bundeswehr were being issued.
Bonert had written an autobiography, and it was to be published in 1998. It was to be titled Glücklich (=happy), however Bonert parted from the publisher and book was self published in 2001 with a different title.
Since 2008 Helen has been managing a branch office of the White Ring association which supports victims of crime.
Her entry was deleted from DE.Wikipedia in 2008.
- Pamela Helen Bonert. Der kalifornische Alptraum oder wie ich glücklich wurde: autobiographische Geschichte mit Leitfaden für Betroffene und transidentische Menschen. Pahebo, 2001.
- Laszlo Scheuch. „Ein Opfer hat immer lebenslänglich“. General Anzeiger, 19, Juni 2017. Online.
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Transgender-net.de included an excerpt from Bonert's book, but under the abandoned title of Glücklich. Bonert wrote to them 15 November 2003, asking that they correct the title. 17 years later they have still not done so.
Der kalifornische Alptraum oder wie ich glücklich wurde is not listed in Amazon.de nor in Abebooks.de. I have added it to my article: (auto)biographies that are almost unobtainable.
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