VA Secretary Denis McDonough announced Saturday that the department has taken the first step, in what is expected to be a years-long process, toward providing gender transition surgeries covered by the veteran healthcare network."We’re making these changes not only because they are the right thing to do, but because they can save lives," McDonough announced during a Pride event in Orlando.
But while the VA secretary said this is being done to make the department "more welcoming" to all veterans, the move has frustrated GOP lawmakers. "President Biden and Secretary McDonough should be less focused on winning the culture wars and more focused on helping the veterans who are suffering from the actual wars," Ranking Member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Rep. Mike Bost, told Fox News.
"Congress has been waiting for months for them to come to the table and help us deliver care and benefits to toxic-exposed veterans who are sick and dying. We have gotten no response," the veteran continued."Yet, somehow they found time to decide that taxpayers should pay for gender transition surgeries at VA medical facilities."
The National Center for Transgender Equality estimates there are more than 134,000 transgender veterans in America today, along with another 15,000 transgender individuals serving in the ranks.
Because they allowed the joke that is Donald trumpet become the party not the other way round so enjoy distopia the rest of us are gonna bounce see ya ✌️
Do you have PROOF
And ppl are out here homeless & hungry😳
Oh, so republicans DO favor regulations. Huh.
This is your reminder that Fox and GOP Elites don't actually care about the troops. They care about the military industrial complex, defence contractors, weapons manufacturers, the powerful who make money from blood. But the actual troops? Nope, they don't care.