{"id":68961,"date":"2016-11-15T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68961"},"modified":"2016-11-15T13:18:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T18:18:22","slug":"va-wont-allow-sex-change-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68961","title":{"rendered":"VA won’t allow sex change surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Military Times<\/a> reports that the Department of Veterans’ Affairs has back-pedaled on plans to offer sex-change surgery to veterans. Their reasoning seems to be budgetary;<\/p>\n

The move, first reported by Military.com, is a significant setback for LGBT advocates and raises questions on whether the surgeries will be offered anytime in coming years, given conservative control of the White House and Congress in 2017.<\/p>\n

In a statement Monday, VA officials said they plan on continuing to offer assistance to transgender veterans by offering \u201chormone therapy, mental health care, preoperative evaluation\u201d and other services.<\/p>\n

But pursuing a rule change to allow the long-held ban on VA physicians offering the surgeries will be delayed until \u201cwhen appropriated funding is available.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How’s about first showing us how gender dysphoria is service-connected like the rest of the stuff that we ask to get done. I’m not going to dispute whether or not it’s even necessary, not until they can explain to me how it’s caused by military service. Basically, it’s elective surgery. Are they going to offer tummy tucks and nose jobs to the fat and ugly? Probably not. <\/p>\n

Are they giving treatment to every member of the military for the things that are connected to their service….not yet. This should go to the very bottom of the “To do” list until they can satisfy their actual mandate to heal service-connected injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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