Posted on 06/21/2021 4:20:08 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Transgender veterans will be offered gender confirmation surgery paid for by the US Department of Veterans' Affairs, its secretary announced Saturday. Denis McDonough told an event in Orlando to celebrate Pride Month, and that the move was 'the right thing to do'. He said the new policy was part of an effort to overcome a 'dark history' of discrimination against LGBTQ service members.
Gender confirmation surgery used to be known as gender reassignment surgery, and involves changing a trans person's body to align with the gender they identify as. The cost was of the program unclear, but Terrence Hayes, VA spokesman, told The Washington Post that they expect fewer than 4,000 people to take up the offer. VA statistics estimate that there are a total of 134,000 transgender veterans, although it is unclear whether they have already gone gender confirmation surgery, or have decided not to do so.
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Just before ETS the army dentist told me I needed a crown but the army would not do it. So he did all the prep work and said within one year the VA would do it. The VA sent me to dentist in 71. I still have that crown which was gold btw.
I believe vets are still eligible for ‘one time’ dental care for 12-months after the end of active service, so long as they saw a dentist as part of their exit physical (which is standard protocol).
But, after that, you’re on your own.
Yeah! More free $h:+.
Gold crowns are the best ! :) I’m about to get my 5th one...on my own private insurance of course.
I have a cousin with knees ruined in Iraq.
How about replacing those instead?
Correct, exactly as it worked then
Plenty of people would like plastic surgery so they are more comfortable with how they look.
But only a special class is eligible for such elective surgery.
The government isn’t paying for this nonsense, the taxpayers are being robbed to pay for it.
Oh, but it’s no elective. Remember? They were born that way!
born with a need for breast implants and a nose job.
So they have the money to mutilate 4,000 mentally ill vets but no money to compensate agent orange victims.
This pisses me off. I had a brother in law pass a few weeks, he was a Marine during the Vietnam era that cleaned AO aircraft. He knows this because that’s the substance he was told by his superiors he was cleaning. He was never in Vietnam thus never qualified to get any compensation while alive and the medical treatment he got while alive sucked pathetically. His last two months of life no one, including his close family, could visit him due to silly covid crap restrictions. He never had covid. He had bladder cancer.
The number of uses I have for the VA range from zero to none at all.
Yep, its nolonger a question, and has now become a challenge
“The number of uses I have for the VA range from zero to none at all.”
I’ll have to remember that phrase. :)
It's time for a major tax revolt in this country. Voting clearly does not work.
Sign of the times. Wonder how far the Lord will allow this to continue? It’s like Sodom and Gomorrah today.
and just where is ‘the government’ going to get the multi millions of dollars that these operations are going to cost
???
And gee, we cant find 4,000 veterans but since the money is already here we cant deny other homosexuals just because they arent veterans...
My father was told the same thing about his aching back. Your depressed, you need anti depressants, your being a baby, its all in your head.. 6 months later he kept falling down and they took him to the hospital. The hospital did their due diligence and found he had stage 4 prostrate cancer and it had spread to his spine.. he died 2 years later.. it could have been different if the VA had bothered to give him a simple PSA blood test. His t count was over 900. The VA needs to spend more more on real problems of our vets, not fairy tails.. ( pun intended)
Its too late. We are Sodom and Hammorah, The US is already circling the drain. The good Lord is waiting for the harvest to pull the weeds. He doesn’t want to tear up the wheat removing the weeds before its time.
You get a vag!
And you get a vag!
And you get a vag!
I have trouble believing there are 4,000 veterans wanting that mutilation. The number seems inflated.
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