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A small portion of transgender soldiers seek medical intervention, yearly 30 to 140 pursue hormone treatment and 25 to 100 have surgical reassignment surgery. It is estimated that a male-to-female transition can cost between US$7,000 and $24,000; female-to-male transition can exceed US$50,000. [ 8 ]
On July 26, 2017, President Trump tweeted that he would ban transgender personnel in the United States military. [16] According to Politico, President Trump had always planned to ban transgender individuals from the military and prohibit the DoD from funding gender reassignment surgeries. Per several congressional and White House sources, the ...
The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the United States federal civil service.The agency provides federal human resources policy, oversight, and support, and tends to healthcare (), life insurance (), and retirement benefits (CSRS and FERS, but not TSP) for federal government employees, retirees, and their ...
The U.S. civil service is managed by the Office of Personnel Management, which as of December 2011 reported approximately 2.79 million civil servants employed by the federal government, [2] [3] [4] including employees in the departments and agencies run by any of the three branches of government (the executive branch, legislative branch, and ...
Military medical ethics (MME) is a specialized branch of medical ethics with implications for military ethics. Both are primarily fields of applied ethics , the study of moral values and judgments as they apply to the specific contexts of medicine and military affairs, respectively.
Although gender-affirming surgeries are available, trans people in Peru often face barriers to gender-affirming care (e.g., lack of qualified and willing providers, high cost, restrictive gatekeeping in assessment for hormones and surgery), and trans individuals may face malpractice and various forms discrimination. [60]
The issue for the court was whether a taxpayer who has been diagnosed with gender identity disorder can deduct sex reassignment surgery costs as necessary medical expenses under 26 U.S.C. § 213. The Internal Revenue Service argued that such surgery is cosmetic and not medically necessary. [22]
Military medical policies still prevent intersex people from serving uncloseted. [14] However, the military does provide some surgeries for intersex people which they deem 'medically necessary' as opposed to 'cosmetic'. [22] The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) does distinguish between surgeries for transgender individuals and intersex ...