{"id":75962,"date":"2017-11-15T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75962"},"modified":"2017-11-15T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:53:52","slug":"active-duty-transgender-service-member-gets-reassignment-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75962","title":{"rendered":"Active duty transgender service member gets reassignment surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/transgender-servicemember-gets-gender-reassignment-surgery-1.497887\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that the Pentagon has announced that it has paid for gender reassignment surgery for an active duty servicemember.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White said the surgery was done Tuesday in a private hospital and was paid for by the military&#8217;s health coverage because the doctor deemed it was medically necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Military hospitals do not have the surgical expertise to perform this type of surgery, therefore it was conducted in a private hospital,&#8221; White said, adding that because this servicemember &#8220;had already begun a sex-reassignment course of treatment, and the treating doctor deemed this surgery medically necessary, a waiver was approved by the director of the Defense Health Agency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Army Maj. Dave Eastburn said that waivers are required and routinely approved for medical procedures that military facilities don&#8217;t have the expertise to perform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve begun that trip down the slippery slope.<\/p>\n<p>The President had told the Pentagon to cease paying for the treatments unless the servicemember&#8217;s health was in danger. Apparently, that was the case here. I&#8217;m not a doctor, but I can&#8217;t imagine how the presence of a male appendage can put someone&#8217;s health in danger. Especially if they were born with one.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s one troop who can&#8217;t be deployed for an extended period of time. Sure hope that our enemies take that into account before staging their next attack &#8211; the fact that we&#8217;re going to fill the ranks with folks who we know will be non-deployable for most of their time in uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that the Pentagon has announced that it has paid for gender reassignment surgery for an active duty servicemember. Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White said the surgery was done Tuesday in a private hospital and was paid for by the military&#8217;s health coverage because the doctor deemed it was medically necessary. &#8221;Military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jLc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75962","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=75962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}