Biden Admin Takes Steps to Offer Gender-Transition Surgery through VA Health Care: Report

National Review ^ | June 19, 2021 | Brittany Bernstein

[karpov]

Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough is taking steps toward making gender transition surgery available to veterans through Veterans Affairs health-care coverage, according to a new report.

A VA department spokesperson reportedly told CNN that McDonough plans to announce the move at a Pride event at the Orlando Vet Center in Florida on Saturday.

“We are taking the first necessary steps to expand VA’s care to include gender confirmation surgery — thus allowing transgender vets to go through the full gender confirmation process with VA by their side,” McDonough is expected to say.

The VA Health Benefits package currently covers mental-health services and sex-change hormones, but does not cover gender-transition surgery.

McDonough’s prepared remarks note that “there are several steps to take, which will take time.” Policy changes will need to be made and the process of creating a new federal regulation can take years.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

And another 10 billion a year gone from the VA.

[mosesdapoet]

If you got tooth problems you still can’t get your teeth fixed.

[Lurkinanloomin]

[EC Washington]

The idiots at the VA can’t take care of the patients they have now. There is a huge backlog of appointments that are lined up because of Covid restrictions.

Hines VA in Chicago couldn’t treat a dog bite without a three month wait for an appointment.

[sleddogs]

I’ve been trying to get a hydrocele repaired for the past 8 years and it just keeps getting worse. I asked them about just removing the problem testicle and they said no as that would be a major surgery. I’ve worked on a farm, it’s no big deal.

[antidemoncrat]

True but they couldn’t have stole it unless a lot of Independents and Democrats and the Republicans who hated Trump hadn’t voted for Joe Birdbrain and Cackling Kamala.