No News Is Bad News!

In this case the Veterans Administration has been mum on our healthcare.

VA again delays decision on transgender surgery options

Military Times

By Leo Shane III

February 26, 2024

Veterans Affairs leaders will delay plans to offer expanded surgery options to transgender veterans for at least several more months as they conduct new studies into the issue, a decision a senior House Democrat called “unacceptable.”

The move comes in response to a lawsuit filed last month by the Transgender American Veterans Association, which argues department officials are endangering the health of transgender veterans by refusing to provide gender confirmation surgery.

VA Secretary Denis McDonough in June 2021 announced plans to offer the procedures, also known as gender reassignment surgeries, at some department medical centers as part of larger efforts to make VA “more welcoming” to all veterans.

But in the nearly three years since that announcement, no surgeries have been performed, and the issue remains stalled in the rulemaking process.

I don’t what could be so difficult about making a policy for our healthcare… the doctor ordered it and they should do it. It doesn’t seem so complicated.

In response to the TAVA lawsuit, McDonough on Feb. 22 issued a memo saying the department has not yet decided “how and when it might ultimately provide gender affirming surgery” and that officials need to better understand how other recent rules changes — including an expansion of health care options under the PACT Act — might impact the number of veterans eligible for those procedures.

From what friends have said about VA healthcare, I don’t know if it would be wise to VA doctors do it.

Advocates have decried those delays. In their lawsuit, TAVA officials called the surgeries “medically necessary care” and said the failure to move ahead with the procedures “puts transgender veterans at increased risk of physical harm, psychological distress, and suicide.”

I personally believe they got cold feet, they are afraid of the Republicans and the firestorm they will create. For me it as simple as they were willing to give their life for our country we should give them the healthcare that they need… Period.