Biden's Veterans Affairs secretary tells Pride event the government will pay for free gender reassignment surgery for up to 4,000 transgender vets

Daily Mail UK ^ | 06/21/2021 | Harriet Alexander

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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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This is my rifle.
I chopped off my gun.
Now I'm a daughter,
but once was a son.

Sound off!
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