Posted on 01/16/2022 7:49:48 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Veterans’ health records can now include their gender identity, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday.
The department said it began including gender identifiers in its national medical record system last month “to help VA providers better understand and meet the health care needs of Veterans,” including transgender and gender-diverse veterans.
It added the categories “transgender male, transgender female, non-binary, other or does not wish to disclose” as options in its gender identity field. Nonbinary refers to an individual whose gender identity is neither exclusively male nor female.
Denis McDonough, the secretary of veterans affairs, said in a statement that the VA’s goal “is to align the department’s policies and procedures with the president’s vision for a more inclusive government.”
“All Veterans, all people, have a basic right to be identified as they define themselves,” McDonough said, according to the news release. “This is essential for their general well-being and overall health. Knowing the gender identity of transgender and gender diverse Veterans helps us better serve them.”
Trans veterans said though it might seem like a small change, it’s meaningful and will make it easier for them to get health care.
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180 hospitals in the VA system. Close them all down except for Walter Reed. Rats fought hard against Trumps move to allow local doctors outside the system too serve them. Show them we ain’t ph—king around.
This wasn’t caught in the psych evaluations?
@#$%^&*!
I suppose it was just a matter of time. Hurry 65, so I can get on Medicare and get away from the VA!
Evil.
At least the records of mentally ill and sexual perverts within the VA will be better tracked with the new check boxes. Be sure to always check the boxes opposite of your actual descriptors on any government forms. Keep the statistics going. So far I would be in the latino, female, depressed categories. /s
If you can’t look between your legs to figure what you are you should be holding a rifle.
<< Denis McDonough, the secretary of veterans affairs, said in a statement that the VA’s goal “is to align the department’s policies and procedures with the president’s vision for a more inclusive government.” >>
Translation: The VA will comply with this insanity to avoid their funding being cut.
Too confusing, how about: male, female , sissy-boy, and dyke?
LOL. And Midway, Inchon and Khe San were wins for regular veterans
My neighbor, Marge, was a surgical nurse at the local VA hospital. She told me one day, probably 20 yrs or more ago, during an operation on a woman, of about 60 yrs, she looked up at the x-ray and was astonished to see it was actually a man (who was apparently living as a woman). No one, no doctor or anyone else, made any mention of it as they proceeded.
Sad that the VA has decided to bend over and drop their drawers for the trannies. Sorry, THERE ARE ONLY TWO ACTUAL GENDERS. Everything else is sexual deviancy.
Can’t wait until some Private identifies as a General.
Or a Corporal-Captain.
Two sexes, humans have a sex, languages have genders.
Oh, this is such good news. I can now sleep better at nights knowing some trans-g is sucking up my tax dollars and wasting hospital resources.
People who don’t know the difference between sex and gender shouldn’t be in charge of anyone’s health care ... or teaching grammar.
This is your weapon this is your gun
One’s for fighting one is for fun.
I’m so excited! Finally the VA can help veterans with serious and important problems. 😂🤣
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