Posted on 06/04/2016 2:36:37 PM PDT by reaganaut1
The Department of Veterans Affairs may cover transition-related surgeries for transgender veterans in the near future under a proposed rule change.
The rule change, first reported by Time late Thursday, would lift a long-standing ban and follow a similar change made to Medicare in 2014.
“Increased understanding of both gender dysphoria and surgical techniques in this area have improved significantly, and surgical procedures are now widely accepted in the medical community as medically necessary treatment for gender dysphoria,” the proposal reads. “In light of these medical advances and recent research, VA would revise its regulation to remove the prohibition on medical services that are considered gender alterations.”
The news of the proposal comes after two transgender veterans petitioned the VA for the change last month.
It’s unclear when the change was officially proposed, but VA officials told Time it has been in the works since 2014.
The VA already covers transition-related care for transgender vets, including hormone replacement therapy and pre- and post-surgical care.
But it’s been barred from covering any actual surgery since the 1990s.
In the proposal, the VA says medical evidence on the safety and necessity of such surgeries was unclear before.
But that’s changed, the proposal says.
“Additionally, recent medical research shows that gender dysphoria is a serious condition that has had severe medical consequences for certain patients if transition-related surgeries and procedures are not provided,” the proposal says.
The decision to undergo surgery would be made on a case-by-case basis, the proposal adds.
The proposal does not include a timeline for when coverage might begin, but such changes can take years to come into place.
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They can’t even take care of wounded vet’s properly and they decide to add the freaka-zoids to the wait list?
Fixed it.
...another poke in the eye America from the juvenile in the white mosque
This was obviously ordered by bammy.
So, if you are transgender and a vet (all 6 of you) and you need your gall bladder removed, the VA won’t do it?
I would say great but only if they send em to John Hopkins
Tell me that you are joking! What next from these sick freaks?
Yeah, and what's the over/under on the [BLEEP]s going to the Head of the Line as soon as they walk in the door?
Used to think that nothing this administration does would surprise me, but then they keep coming up with stuff like this....
Sickening.
Using limited funds for unnecessary surgery that, according to John’s Hopkins professionals, doesn’t help the transgender disorder.
Our veterans deserve better.
Unbelievable.
Took words right out of my mouth. With all the problems of meeting basic medical needs, we now have to make sex change operations and hormone treatments and all the rest, a priority over everything else???? Really?????
But if you want your you know what removed, your surgery gets top priority.
One, I wonder how many transvestites will actually want the surgery.
Second, I wonder how they’ll find enough doctors from Nigeria who know how to perform the procedure.
(But if you want your you know what removed, your surgery gets top priority.)
yep, sounds bout right. Was trying to get closest VA hospital 200 miles from me to have a decades old chunk of shrapnel removed from my leg as a fast growing tumor was encasing and growing around it. They looked at it and scheduled my surgery 11 months out. Took only a month before it grew so fast I couldn’t walk anymore on the leg and had to have it removed at a local hospital on my dime. Took 10 days from Dr visit to Surgeon consult to getting it removed compared to VA’s 8 months from time I complained about it to VA to them scheduling me for the surgery. I guess if I had wanted to be turned into a eunoch they woulda acted faster, but combat wounds ... nawwww, back of the line trooper.
So Obama wants to “literally” castrate the American Military
That’s exactly what would happen - there would be no waiting list for sex change surgeries b/c it’s a mandate from Obama and Prez Val.
Probably get moved to the head of the line.
They are unable to take care of real problems,
and there has been no accountability.
It is time to remove Gen. Hasan and Dr. Hasan
and the others in the Pentagon who support al Qaeda,
is it not?
“They looked at it and scheduled my surgery 11 months out. Took only a month before it grew so fast I couldn’t walk anymore on the leg and had to have it removed at a local hospital on my dime.”
I know it doesn’t help, but that really hacks me off. You should go congressional, or even IG, and get those scumbag bureaucrats to cover your expenses.
Mistreatment of military men by those who don’t serve is nothing new, either.
When the British army first issued ID cards, they grabbed up the first private they could find at HQ, made one up for him, then sent copies worldwide as samples. Ever since, the British enlisted man has been known as Thomas Atkins.
Rudyard Kipling had a special connection to Tommy Atkins, much like Bob Hope had to our GIs.
TOMMY
by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
I went into a public-’ouse to get a pint o’ beer,
The publican ’e up an’ sez, “We serve no red-coats here.”
The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an’ to myself sez I:
O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, go away”;
But it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but ’adn’t none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-’alls,
But when it comes to fightin’, Lord! they’ll shove me in the stalls!
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, wait outside”;
But it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide,
The troopship’s on the tide, my boys, the troopship’s on the tide,
O it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide.
Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap;
An’ hustlin’ drunken soldiers when they’re goin’ large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit.
Then it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, ’ow’s yer soul?”
But it’s “Thin red line of ’eroes” when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it’s “Thin red line of ’eroes” when the drums begin to roll.
We aren’t no thin red ’eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints;
While it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, fall be’ind”,
But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind,
There’s trouble in the wind, my boys, there’s trouble in the wind,
O it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind.
You talk o’ better food for us, an’ schools, an’ fires, an’ all:
We’ll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ’is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool – you bet that Tommy sees!
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