{"id":61864,"date":"2015-09-16T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61864"},"modified":"2015-09-16T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:56:37","slug":"la-times-examines-high-rate-of-transgendered-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61864","title":{"rendered":"LA Times examines high rate of transgendered veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paul sends us a link to the LA Times<\/a> in which they examine why researchers think the military seems to be jam-packed with transgender folks. <\/p>\n

Transgender people are present in the armed services at a higher rate than in the general population.<\/p>\n

The latest analysis, published last year by UCLA researchers, estimated that nearly 150,000 transgender people have served in the military, or about 21% of all transgender adults in the U.S. By comparison, 10% of the general population has served.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, this all based on an estimate made by pointy-headed microscope starers.<\/p>\n

[Dr. George Brown]’s transgender patients told him that they had signed up for service when they were still in denial about their true selves and were trying to prove they were “real men.”<\/p>\n

“I just kept hearing the same story over and over again,” said Brown, 58, now a professor at East Tennessee State University and a specialist in gender identity issues at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Mountain Home, Tenn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, ya know, if you call in some ghost hunters to check out your house, they’re going to find ghosts in your house. If you call in a “specialist in gender identity issues”, he’s going to see a lot of folks with gender identity issues. That doesn’t mean that the military is rife with transgender people.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Census Bureau does not collect data to determine [the occurrence of gender identity confusion], so researchers must extrapolate from other, smaller surveys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, they guess a lot because they can’t be sure.<\/p>\n

In 2011, nearly 23 out of every 100,000 patients in the VA system had a diagnosis of gender identity disorder, which is used to describe gender identity issues that lead to significant levels of psychological distress and has been associated with high suicide risk.<\/p>\n

That’s five times the rate in the general population.<\/p>\n

The comparison comes with a caveat. In 2011, the VA began providing hormone therapy and other nonsurgical treatment for transgender patients, a strong motivation for some people to seek out a diagnosis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Naw, that can’t have much to do with it. The opportunity to get expensive elective medical treatment, normally an out-of-pocket expense, for free couldn’t be much of a draw, could it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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