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  2. Transgender veterans sue the VA for gender-affirming surgery

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    In June 2021, Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough announced that the department was “taking the first necessary steps to expand VA’s care to include gender confirmation surgery ...

  3. House passes defense policy bill that bans gender-affirming ...

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    The House voted on Wednesday to pass a critical defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a ban against gender-affirming care for some transgender ...

  4. What is gender-affirming care? Your questions, answered - AOL

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    Gender-affirming care is a multidisciplinary approach that includes medically necessary and scientific evidence-based practices to help a person safely transition from their assigned gender ...

  5. LGBT healthcare in the United States Veterans Health ...

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    The United States Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has an LGBTQ+ Program through the Office of Patient Care Services. [1] The “+” sign captures identities beyond LGBTQ, including but not limited to questioning, pansexual, asexual, agender, gender diverse, nonbinary, gender-neutral, and other identities.

  6. Legal status of gender-affirming healthcare - Wikipedia

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    Singapore was the first country in Asia to legalize gender-affirming surgeries in 1973. Singapore's first gender-affirming operation on a transmasculine patient took place three years later, and was carried out in three stages between August 1974 and October 1977, as gender-affirming surgeries for transmasculine people are much more complex.

  7. Transgender veterans sue to have gender-affirming surgery ...

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    A group of transgender veterans filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin providing and paying for gender-affirming surgeries. The lawsuit from the ...

  8. Transgender disenfranchisement in the United States

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    As of August 2023, 21 states have banned gender affirming care for minors and 7 states are considering implementing such a ban. [12] Transgender voters who must wait until the age of 18 to receive gender affirming care face barriers in changing their gender on birth certificates and driver's licenses in time for an upcoming election.

  9. After the first gender-affirming care ban for minors became law in 2021, a flurry of states passed similar measures. Gender-affirming care was a particularly hot-button topic for lawmakers on both ...