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First VA transgender clinic opens in Cleveland
WKYC-TV ^ | November 11, 2015

Posted on 11/11/2015 4:11:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

CLEVELAND (WKYC) – The Cleveland VA Medical Center will open the first VA clinic specifically dedicated to the healthcare needs of transgender veterans.

It will provide transgender veterans with primary care, hormonal therapy, mental health care and social work services. All of the providers in the clinic have a special interest in transgender care and will create an environment that celebrates and welcomes these veterans.

Transgender patients are an important, but frequently overlooked, VA says in a news release. The Cleveland VA currently treats about 20 transgender veterans.

Each year more than 200 patients are newly diagnosed with gender dysphoria across the country, which puts them at a higher risk for tobacco abuse, mental health disorders, and suicide according to Dr. Megan McNamara, who is the clinical lead for the transgender clinic.

A ceremony will begin Thursday at 12:30 p.m. on the second level of the main atrium at the Wade Park facility.

The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center provides healthcare to more than 112,000 veterans annually through its inpatient and outpatient healthcare services.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: transgenders; veterans
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To: Clintonfatigued

That this is even allowed to be set up with taxpayer $$ is offensive and obscene.


21 posted on 11/11/2015 4:49:17 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What would the Sgt. in “Full Metal Jacket” say?


22 posted on 11/11/2015 4:59:34 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: Clintonfatigued; 2ndDivisionVet; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; ...

Some day... sanity will return to this Country.


23 posted on 11/11/2015 5:03:17 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Perdogg; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; stephenjohnbanker

http://youtu.be/j6gLJ4_sfG8


24 posted on 11/11/2015 5:11:01 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this a satire? I don’t believe there are 20 transgendered veterans in need of treatment.


25 posted on 11/11/2015 6:05:54 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So vets are dying for lack of regular care and they need to cater to freaks?


26 posted on 11/11/2015 6:17:04 PM PST by nomad
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We already crossed into the Twilight Zone. Now the story is just getting weirder.


27 posted on 11/11/2015 6:24:30 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Only under Obama could these folks take up resources that could otherwise went to people who actually need it.

I have seen transgendered at my lock VA facility, they are mainstreamed according to established VA priorities. As it should be.

28 posted on 11/11/2015 6:33:58 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Clintonfatigued; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj

My level of surprise at this story, zero, and that may be the worst part. This nonsense has become commonplace.


29 posted on 11/11/2015 9:53:45 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy; Clintonfatigued; stephenjohnbanker; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj

Yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oven#/media/File%3APizza-oven.jpg

It’s time.


30 posted on 11/12/2015 4:53:53 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberal version of shock and awe.


31 posted on 11/12/2015 4:58:49 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Democrats have covens, not conventions.)
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To: Impy

“....This nonsense has become commonplace...”

Which is the entire point of what they’re doing.

Trying to normalize it.


32 posted on 11/12/2015 6:23:14 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Impy; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; Perdogg; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; stephenjohnbanker

My advice for these freaks: http://youtu.be/fdK-d_RQWM4


33 posted on 11/13/2015 5:00:02 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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