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Trans vets sue government to pay for sex change ops - opening door to $100,000 taxpayer-funded surgeries for 163,000 non-conforming ex-service members

2024-01-26

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A group of transgender veterans has sued the Department of Veteran Affairs to make them provide and pay for sex-change surgeries on the taxpayer's dime.

The Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) wants VA Secretary Denis McDonough to come good on pledges to offer sex-reassignment procedures to former service members.

The campaigners say they are 'essential and lifesaving medical care' for a suicide-prone group that suffers from high rates of depression and psychological distress.

TAVA counts some 163,000 trans veterans. The suit could open the door to tens of thousands of claims for taxpayer-funded ops that cost more than $100,000 for head-to-toe gender reversals.

Posted by:Skidmark

#16 I imderstood that suicide rates are basically unchanged pre- and post-surgery.

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-01-26 23:59

#15 'essential and lifesaving medical care' for a suicide-prone group that suffers from high rates of depression and psychological distress

And most of the suicides in that group are the post trans people that feel like their body has been mutilated and they don't feel better.

Posted by: DarthVader 2024-01-26 23:26

#14 Hospitals make money on elective surgeries.
So too the fucking cutters.
Making maintenance clients for life.
However short that might be.

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-26 15:49

#13 100 grand to cut off a dick seems excessive.

I'd pay for it. For these fine folks. Nice example of 'be careful what you wish for'. Free dickectomies for anyone who wants one.

Posted by: Angstrom 2024-01-26 13:38

#12 Good point Jefe, and two years of screen-to-screen advertising to a captive consumer.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-01-26 13:33

#11

Posted by: Jack Creanter7508 2024-01-26 13:19

#10 I talked to an Army recruiter (not to join, I'm retired from the Navy) about having trans people in the military. He said that the only long term medication you can be taking and still join the Army is birth control.
So people who are trans can't join, because they have to take hormone treatments all the time. We didn't discuss what happens if you go trans after enlisting. Or after serving. I didn't think you got lifetime care unless the injury was service connected, or you were retired

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2024-01-26 12:54

#9 Hospitals make money on elective surgeries. Covid killed that. Post Covid a monstrous new industry was born with ready made lobbyists and an ideological agenda to support it.

Posted by: Jefe101 2024-01-26 12:51

#8 They are making the military into a sex change program. If you are a gay tranny and cant afford the surgery, you join the military for four years - that's a reality. Another reality is that the tranny's typically get desk jobs, they arent assigned infantry.

And now they are making it retro-active and available to past veterans.

Posted by: mossomo 2024-01-26 12:31

#7 ^War-stress induced mental state.

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-26 12:15

#6 Where do all these crazy people come from?! 163K trans servicemen?

Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2024-01-26 11:23

#5 100 grand to cut off a dick seems excessive.

Posted by: irish rage boy 2024-01-26 11:21

#4 Yet my wife gets bills from the VA for every damn little thing they require her to do just to be able to keep getting care.

Posted by: Chris 2024-01-26 08:38

#3 Not service related. Go stand over there -> till we clear the line of service related cases the VA has to deal with.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-01-26 07:44

#2 Or 100 acres in the Smokies ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-01-26 07:42

#1

What if a Trans-Vets identifies as Corvette?

Posted by: NN2N1 2024-01-26 07:41

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