Trans vets sue government to pay for sex change ops - opening door to $100,000 taxpayer-funded surgeries for 163,000 non-conforming ex-service members

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[algore]

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.

A VA spokesman said the department does not comment on current lawsuits.

Officials started work on changing the rules for trans procedures in 2021, but it's a years-long process, he added.

The final decision would allow 'transgender vets to go through the full gender confirmation process with VA by their side,' said the spokesman.

The veterans first pushed for the rule change in May 2016.

The VA provides hormones and other treatments to trans veterans at some locations, says TAVA

[algore]

This will be approved for a lot of reasons.

One is that gov't is infested with Fauci types and if you join the military so you can get a sex change they can do long term studies on a lot of things.

They will