Posted on 06/19/2021 8:01:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to CNN, the Biden administration is moving to make gender change surgery available through Veterans Affairs hospitals starting as early as this summer.
The previous policy made other gender transition services available through the VA, including hormone treatments and counseling. The surgery would be available to active duty and reserve personnel as well as those eligible through their VA benefits.
In 2018, the Defense Department counted 14,700 transgender military personnel currently serving or in the reserves. It’s unknown how many soldiers would opt for what’s known as “gender transition” surgery.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough will announce the change in policy at a Pride event tonight.
“We are taking the first necessary steps to expand VA’s care to include gender confirmation surgery — thus allowing transgender vets to go through the full gender confirmation process with VA by their side,” McDonough’s prepared remarks state.
One estimate — done by the National Center for Transgender Equality — estimates that there 134,000 transgender veterans.
Gender confirmation surgery has “been proven effective at mitigating serious health conditions, including suicidality, substance abuse, and dysphoria,” a VA spokesperson said. LGBTQ+ veterans experience “mental illness and suicidal thoughts at far higher rates than those outside their community,” McDonough’s prepared remarks state.
The move follows an effort in the Biden-Harris administration to make diversity and inclusion, including the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals, a priority. President Joe Biden, alongside Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, repealed a Trump-era ban on most transgender individuals serving in the military shortly after Biden took office.
The only question that should be relevant is can they fight? All the woke nonsense in the world won’t help them — or the men and women they serve with — if they can’t or don’t fight.
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It is deliberate and they are pushing our faces in it.
No question.
I’ve no words about this but,Good Lord!
I never thought I would see things like this in my life.
Oh, that’s great. I can’t get a minimal dose of morphine, as I did for years, but they’re going to waste millions of dollars giving harmful surgeries to the mentally ill.
Served aboard a destroyer. There were certain people who never went out on deck at night while at sea. I wonder if that also changed.
Females will request an ADD-A-DIC-TO-ME
You are correct!
It’s like our world has turned into a nightmare!
It only gets worse as I see it.
Ain't that just the American way??
With Democrats, everything is about perversion and destruction.
Biden is a degenerate, reprobate and a really sick FK... which pretty much in that assessment covers all Marxist lefties, Dems and the entire MSM/academia propaganda industrial complex that slithers and crawls with politicians, perverts and pedophiles.
I can’t hardy believe Americans are even tolerating this President...the enemy of mens souls rules this administration!
His answer was because after working since I was sixteen and made my own way to become a business owner and paid all my taxes ,I'm left with a max of 1800.oo a month from Social Security. They also refuse me full medicare because I have few dollars in the bank.
He told me, during the GW Bush time,they are all the same and all in it for themselves!
Control the people but the cycle only contiunes!
Bottom line ,he was right!
He was Born in 1939!
My Dad Was right!
He said both sides just play the people but the fix is in!
I always feel very sad reading opinions like that because I want so much not to believe that truth....but it certainly is proving very true.
Yep!
Or Worse, Conspiracy theorist or the worse of them all ...those Die Hard Trump Supporters! LOL!
LOL WTF is that?????
Your “betters” have decreed that “reassignment surgery” MUST be called “CONFIRMATION surgery” henceforth and forevermore.
When can I leave this galaxy?
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