{"id":48957,"date":"2014-05-28T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48957"},"modified":"2014-05-27T19:30:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T23:30:04","slug":"va-treats-trangender-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48957","title":{"rendered":"VA treats trangender vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140527\/BENEFITS06\/305270026\/VA-treats-2-500-transgender-veterans\">Army Times<\/a> which reports that the VA admits that they have treated more than 2500 veterans for gender dysphoria, you know that disorder that the <a href=\"http:\/\/allpsych.com\/disorders\/sexual\/genderidentity.html\">Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/a> says &#8220;that childhood issues may play a role in this disorder&#8221; meaning it&#8217;s not service-connected.<\/p>\n<p>And oh, did I mention that thousands of veterans are in line to get actual problems caused by their service treated? Well, they are.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2013, the Veterans Affairs department treated 2,567 veterans with the diagnosis of gender dysphoria with transgender-specific care, according to Ndidi Mojay, a VA spokeswoman. The department does not have a cost estimate for the treatment, which can include male or female hormones depending on gender.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Few transgender individuals pursue a goal of transformation to the other gender that also includes the complete set of sex reassignment surgeries,&#8221; Mojay said in an email. &#8220;The VA does not pay for or support sex reassignment surgeries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The VA has supported counseling, cross-sex hormone therapy, evaluations for sex reassignment surgeries performed outside the department and post-reassignment surgical care since 2011, Mojay said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now, the Army is planning on pushing that Manning fellow to the head of the line at the VHA to get his treatment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends a link to the Army Times which reports that the VA admits that they have treated more than 2500 veterans for gender dysphoria, you know that disorder that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders says &#8220;that childhood issues may play a role in this disorder&#8221; meaning it&#8217;s not service-connected. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/manning-tears.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-cJD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}