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Trans US veterans to be offered gender surgery for first time
bbc.com ^ | June 20, 2021 | BBC

Posted on 06/20/2021 3:49:21 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

The US government has announced it will offer gender confirmation surgery for transgender veterans through its health care coverage for the first time.

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) secretary Denis McDonough announced the change at a Pride event in Florida.

He said it would allow veterans to go through the full process "with VA at their side".

Previously hormone therapy and mental health services were covered but not surgery.

Gender confirmation surgery, also known as sex reassignment surgery, covers a range of procedures which alter a person's anatomy to match their gender identity.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
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To: Berlin_Freeper

New slogan? “Are you cut out for today’s army?”

Should make some of the PTSD crowd a little safer if they are “fixed”. Helps with tom cats and pit bulls.


21 posted on 06/20/2021 4:19:07 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Berlin_Freeper

With the mental issues they exhibit, they should never be allowed in and kicked out and committed to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.


22 posted on 06/20/2021 4:22:29 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Insanity!


23 posted on 06/20/2021 4:24:39 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Larry Lucido

This is my rifle.

This is where my gun was.


24 posted on 06/20/2021 4:26:46 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Society is becoming sicker and sicker with every passing day... And the day that they allow pedophilia and bestiality... Civilization is officially OVER!


25 posted on 06/20/2021 4:28:28 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This is another fraud that lets a person wanting this surgery join the military to get it free. I am sure that I am not alone in questioning this elective surgery that will put the taxpayers on the hook for the life of the patient. It will require medication and medical and psychological treatment for the remainder of the life of anybody who is mutilated in the expectation of living a normal life. In addition, a VA govt pension check will be theirs for life as they will not be able to handle employment like the taxpayers who support them. On the other hand, just why is the VA joining this madness while ignoring the need of thousands of vets who cannot afford dental care? The govt in general is facilitating elective sexual surgery when the actual situation of millions of older Americans would be healthier with just dental and hearing attention. Throwing money at elective surgery for vets who join the service as one sex and decide to chop off some part of their anatomy or add something is not their business. Who in the hell is in charge of this country anyway? Right, Communists, democrats and fellow travelers in the Deep State. All of those who voted for this Biden administration bear a lasting guilt for the madness that is trying to destroy this Republic.


26 posted on 06/20/2021 4:42:43 PM PDT by mountainfolk
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Amazing that a doctor(anyone) undertaking the Hippocratic Oath would mutilate a mentally ill person on purpose.
27 posted on 06/20/2021 4:45:14 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: butlerweave

Since when has this happened. I departed the service after serving six years and sometime around 1982 or so Congress in their infinite wisdom decided to drop million of former non-Combat wounded veterans after promising to provide health coverage to those same vets to get them to enlist during the “Peaceful” cold war.

Now you look and not only are they giving care to veterans. They’re giving sex change operations. This is Nuts.

Are there any veterans here that are aware of changes that allow vets from the 70’s and later to resume coverage through the V.A.?


28 posted on 06/20/2021 5:23:59 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Major Disaster?


29 posted on 06/20/2021 5:35:40 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This is a nightmare. Half the country has gone mad.


30 posted on 06/20/2021 5:41:16 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The taxpayers will get the privilege of paying for this hooey.


31 posted on 06/20/2021 7:00:30 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Berlin_Freeper

When I lived in Philly,I would go to the VA and volunteer as a Army Vet who knew what it’s like to go through LEGITIMATE issues. Most have no clue how many Vets are on the streets but now the priority is shlong cutting?


32 posted on 06/20/2021 7:09:30 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

how about vasectomy reversal just to be fair.


33 posted on 06/20/2021 7:26:26 PM PDT by the_daug ( )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I remember my uncle fighting tooth and nail for the most mundane of procedures at the VA hospital. Anyone wanna guess if the trannies will have to wait in line like the rest of the vets?


34 posted on 06/20/2021 7:41:23 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I am good at dressing out game. Perhaps I could assist! Unfortunately I am only good at slicing and dicing and not repair and reconstruction.

Of course this is sarcasm but it is just show the idiocy of what is going on. It should also be noted that many that undergo transgender surgery often regret their decisions. The suicide and addiction rate in this group is large in the extreme compared to the general population.

In addition, to allow an individual of less than adulthood (18 it the legal definition) to be given hormones and or surgery is simply child abuse. At that age their bodies are a mass of hormones and confusion abetted by the media that promotes a LGBT agenda. These confused kids are victims. They often make the wrong decision which can not be reversed. Thus comes the drug abuse and suicide due to extreme depression.

“Caitlyn Jenner” his real name is Bruce Jenner is running for governor of California. He was and is the most outstanding Olympic Swimmer in History, but his current water drag profile due to his new chest would be a killer in competition. What he did to his body was as an adult and totally his choice. A little bit weird but I approve his right to do this.

Oddly, he is far superior to the present governor of California. I hope he wins. Not she, but I hope “he” wins.


35 posted on 06/20/2021 9:20:04 PM PDT by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Oilfield Constultant, Instructor Pilot, Pharmacist. )
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Si let's see, the Chinese communists are spending our consumer dollars on their military and space program, and we're spending the money we borrow from them on this.

How did we come to this?

36 posted on 06/21/2021 4:20:26 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Still praying for our country and President Trump)
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