Posted on 01/25/2024 4:30:20 PM PST by Morgana
A group of transgender veterans has sued the Department of Veteran Affairs to make them provide and pay for sex-change surgeries on the taxpayer's dime.
The Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) wants VA Secretary Denis McDonough to come good on pledges to offer sex-reassignment procedures to former service members.
The campaigners say they are 'essential and lifesaving medical care' for a suicide-prone group that suffers from high rates of depression and psychological distress.
TAVA counts some 163,000 trans veterans. The suit could open the door to tens of thousands of claims for taxpayer-funded ops that cost more than $100,000 for head-to-toe gender reversals.
Transgender veterans have waited far too long for the VA to provide the gender-affirming surgery so many of us need to survive, said TAVA president Rebekka Eshler.
'We hope that this lawsuit will force Secretary McDonough to follow through on what he has been promising us since 2021. We're tired of empty promises. We need care.'
Campaigners said they filed their case on Thursday at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington.
The papers state that sex change procedures are 'often prohibitively expensive' and many trans veterans cannot afford them through private doctors.
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Should the VA pay for veteran sex-change ops?
Yes 1% 2 votes
No 98% 253 votes
Not sure 1% 3 votes
Well, who didn’t see this coming???
These frickin weirdos have got to be purged.
And the sooner the better.
“ … a suicide-prone group that suffers from high rates of depression and psychological distress”
How did they make it past psychological screening?
“to provide the gender-affirming surgery so many of us need to survive”
Their bodies work just fine. They have survived for decades.
Include the costs of lifelong treatment that is very expensive and causes lifelong disabilities that taxpayers will have to pay
Under what perveted system of logic would ANYONE think it is right and proper for the US TAXPAYER to pay for these mentally ill butt-wipes to be surgically adjusted?
We are so far down the rabbit hole...
That's nuts !!
Suicide prone because ANYONE who is deeply mentally and emotionally disturbed is more likely to commit suicide. The solution would be to teach them to adjust to REALITY, not to pretend men can get pregnant!
So if a vet feels bad because he has a small wanker, does this mean we’re on tap to buy him a bigger one?
My father’s generation of American warfighters sought to rid the world of evil.
My son’s generation of American warfighters seeks to know which bathroom to use.
Veterans get plenty of damned benefits anyway, but the VA is totally corrupt and clueless.
I am shit-ass sick and tired of talking to guys who changed oil on Humvees at Leavenworth for a few months and now get 1900.00/mo PTSD payments.
“Thank you for your service.”
Stolen Valor all over the place in this country.
BTW, as a customer, during the Trump era where the MSM relentlessly kept talking about how Trump doesn't care about Vets, you could literally see the positive changes in the VA. By year 3 of Trump, the VA was an entirely different animal (in a good way). And today, even as the VA slips backward no one in the MSM cares.
No stories about long wait times returning in many of the major hospitals, no stories about how you can't get pain meds today even if you really need them...
You can't get quick treatment for cancer, but if you want a Covid vaccine and all 100 boosters, you can get them on the spot!
Government is a political beast. Everything they touch becomes a political decision.
Since all this LGBTQIA junk is trendy right now and every politician wants to jump behind it, the VA will likely end up paying for this if they aren't already.
Sex change would be a “life choice” procedure.
Just like no insurance will cover Viagra. Rosacea treatment. Male pattern baldness, eye lift, etc
Going to file as a man trapped in woman’s body, within a man’s body.
With gender-affirming care double that of regular trans, will need a check for $200k minimum.
I’ll save them $99,950 each... I have a good knife. I’ll geld them for fifty bucks each.
I’d say spend the money, without testicles these (guys cant breed), if they want it! give it to them.
journalism in clown world.
Absolutely not! Every one of them should be denied, and if they are still in the military, discharged.
Red6 Since you are a vet will you tell me one thing? Do they not have a Nervous Hospital for vets?
“Natalie Kastner, a 39-year-old disabled veteran from Texas, took a knife to her own testicles because the VA wasn’t paying for a procedure “
The VA must have some padded cell for this guy. If not then that is where we need to make changes.
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