Posted on 06/21/2021 4:20:08 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Transgender veterans will be offered gender confirmation surgery paid for by the US Department of Veterans' Affairs, its secretary announced Saturday. Denis McDonough told an event in Orlando to celebrate Pride Month, and that the move was 'the right thing to do'. He said the new policy was part of an effort to overcome a 'dark history' of discrimination against LGBTQ service members.
Gender confirmation surgery used to be known as gender reassignment surgery, and involves changing a trans person's body to align with the gender they identify as. The cost was of the program unclear, but Terrence Hayes, VA spokesman, told The Washington Post that they expect fewer than 4,000 people to take up the offer. VA statistics estimate that there are a total of 134,000 transgender veterans, although it is unclear whether they have already gone gender confirmation surgery, or have decided not to do so.
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The move is just the first step in what's likely to be a years-long federal rulemaking process to expand VA health benefits to cover the surgery, but McDonough said the VA will use the time to 'develop capacity to meet the surgical needs' of transgender veterans.
The decision, he said, will allow 'transgender vets to go through the full gender confirmation process with VA by their side.' McDonough also referenced what he said were higher rates of mental illness and suicidal thoughts among LGBTQ veterans, and a fear of discrimination that prevents those veterans from seeking care.
In July 2016 the U.S. formally opened up the military to transgender individuals. In 2017, Trump reversed Obama’s policy. He claimed it was a waste of resources and would affect combat readiness, despite multiple retired top officials blasting the ban as cruel political point-scoring.
Just days into his term, President Joe Biden signed an executive order overturning a Trump administration ban on transgender individuals serving in the military.
Gina Duncan, director of transgender equality for the statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization Equality Florida, told the Orlando Sentinel that her agency was ‘thrilled to have allies at the highest level of government.’
She pointed out that the Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has recently banned transgender girls from taking part in women’s sport.
‘In a moment of fierce state and local backlash against the transgender community, this move by the Biden administration is a reminder that elections matter,’ Duncan said.
‘Support for transgender veterans and the lifesaving health care they need to live authentically is a critical component to fulfilling our nation’s promise of caring for those who’ve served.’
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I need to stop asking if this nation can get any more insane.
It’s a sad world we live in.
Wonder when the demorat Congress will take up that bill, to force the insurance companies to cover addadictomies and chopadickoffames. It's the new civil rights frontier, after all.
I am wondering, if military will be filled by persons who want transgender surgery.
Who knows, maybe transgender surgery will become one of the largest portion of US military spending?!
“Biden’s Veterans Affairs secretary tells Pride event the government will pay...”
No you a-hole, TAXPAYERS are being FORCED to pay.
We are thinking the same on that subject.
If you have a tooth and teeth problem the VA will not handle it. Only if you can produce your service dental records to show it was time in service related.
Yup. US armed services vets have been pining away for chopadickoffame surgery. It’s why they put on the uniform in the first place. And what will they do with the discarded johnsons? Why, make a giant meat sculpture of raising the flag at Iwo, of course. If only Ira Hayes had realized he was a woman trapped in a man’s body, he wouldn’t have drunk himself to death./S
Veterans who weren’t prisoners of war or don’t suffer from a service-related disability are unable to obtain dental care from the VA. You’re an unemployed vet with an impacted tooth or abscess and you go to the VA fo help, you’re shown the door because it’s too expensive.
And yet, they’ve got the money to mutilate men & women who are suffering from psychosis.
government will pay for free gender reassignment surgery
How do you pay for something that is “free”?
They take it as a challenge.
I should have read the comments. I just said the same thing.
The enemy won’t have to fire a shot.
They will die laughing at us.
This is unreal.
You get what you pay for.
I imagine veterans who have legitimate needs will be nickeled and dimed about everything and denied help whenever possible “Take this aspirin, go home and die!”, but the red carpet will be rolled out for any trans person who wants to be mutilated.
WE will pay for “free” gender reassignment surgery.
The holy grail of the left is to force us to pay for abortion, euthanasia, and dick-chopping surgery. They’ve accomplished it. Their next move will be to take more of our money.
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