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Using diagnostic codes in medical record data, Blosnich and colleagues found that the prevalence of transgender veterans in VHA (22.9/100,000) is five times higher than reported prevalence of transgender-related diagnoses in the general population (4.3/100,000). [6]
The Transgender American Veterans Association, or TAVA, formed in 2003, filed a petition in May 2016 asking the VA to start a rulemaking process to amend its health benefits to cover gender ...
In 2016, the association called for the U.S. Veteran's Administration to provide surgery for transgender veterans, [7] in a petition filed by the Transgender Law Center and Lambda Legal. [8] In 2024, TAVA sued VA with the aim of getting gender-affirming surgeries funded and provided by the agency. [9]
An advocacy group for transgender veterans filed a second lawsuit against the government over its exclusion of gender-affirming surgery from veteran health benefits.
On April 13, 2018, the policy was stayed in Karnoski vs. Trump (Western District of Washington), when the court ruled that the 2018 memorandum essentially repeated the same issues as its predecessor order from 2017, that transgender service members (and transgender individuals as a class) were a protected class entitled to strict scrutiny of ...
Activists for transgender rights gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 1, 2023.
Presidential Memorandum of August 25, 2017. The Presidential Memorandum on Military Service by Transgender Individuals, officially the Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, is the 27th presidential memorandum signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on August 25, 2017.
Transgender people have served or sought to serve in the United States military (U.S. military) throughout its history. Since January 25, 2021, transgender individuals have been allowed to openly serve and enlist in the U.S. military; however President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals serving and enlisting in the U.S. military, which he plans to ...