Transgender veterans

[Jazzy]

A group of transgender veterans filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin providing and paying for gender-affirming surgeries.

The lawsuit from the Transgender American Veterans Association seeks to compel the VA to codify in its regulations verbal assurances the department has made that it would begin providing those services, said Rebekka Eshler, the president of the association.

She said the surgeries are needed to reduce the risk of suicides, depression, and psychological distress for transgender people who live with gender dysphoria.

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In your opinion: Should the Department of Veterans Affairs pay for gender-affirming surgeries? (Why or Why not)

 

[Josiah]

No.

It's not health care.

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[Albion]

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In your opinion: Should the Department of Veterans Affairs pay for gender-affirming surgeries? (Why or Why not)

Should the taxpayers also pay for optional breast enlargements, eye shadow tattoos, and hair plugs?

Does it help if we give each one of these procedures some newly-coined and nice-sounding terminology?

No.

 

[tango]

If I sign up can I have wealth-affirming payments? I identify as a billionaire regardless of what my bank statements say. It's distressing to see my bank statements so out of line with my reality so I'd really appreciate someone affirming my reality and paying me a couple of billion dollars to alleviate my distress.

 

[Origen]

Absolutely not!