VA plans to offer gender-confirmation surgery to transgender veterans, reversing ban.

[Davie]

VA plans to offer gender-confirmation surgery to transgender veterans, reversing ban.

 

June 19, 2021 at 11:27 p.m. EDT

The Department of Veterans Affairs is moving to provide gender-confirmation surgery through its health-care coverage, reversing a 2013 ban, VA Secretary Denis McDonough announced Saturday.

McDonough pledged to overcome a “dark history” of discrimination and take steps to expand access to care for transgender veterans at a Pride Month event in Orlando, which this month marked the fifth anniversary of a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub, that left 49 people dead. The VA plans to begin the two-year process this summer, a VA spokesman confirmed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/06/19/veterans-gender-affirmation-surgery/

[KymmieL]

YEAH!!!!!! About time. Can you say boobs???

 

Kymmie

[Davie]

@KymmieL Boobs.

[Vini]

@Davie  Will you pinch me ?  I don't know how, but I started the whole process last January.  Now I'm starting hrt during pride month. I just read Jennifer Boylan's book , She's Not There, and was getting the courage for surgery someday and then the VA decides to offer it in a couple years during my transition.  I don't want to count my chickens yet and call it a sign, but its pretty encouraging to find new eyes, Vini

[Davie]

@ViniThe stars align for the truth.

[KymmieL]

On 6/27/2021 at 1:48 PM, Vini said:

@Davie  Will you pinch me ?  I don't know how, but I started the whole process last January.  Now I'm starting hrt during pride month. I just read Jennifer Boylan's book , She's Not There, and was getting the courage for surgery someday and then the VA decides to offer it in a couple years during my transition.  I don't want to count my chickens yet and call it a sign, but its pretty encouraging to find new eyes, Vini

 

Yeah, It is still encouraging that the VA is going to start. When they actually fund a GCS. that is when I really believe it.

Then I will be looking to get on the VA waiting list.

 

Kymmie