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For example, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers protections to transgender VA employees, including access to sanitary facilities, use of preferred name and pronouns in employee files, and avenues through which to report workplace discrimination, as well as healthcare coverage for transition related care. [20]
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 ...
An advocacy group for transgender veterans filed a second lawsuit against the government over its exclusion of gender-affirming surgery from veteran health benefits.
In February 2024, the American Psychological Association approved a policy statement supporting unobstructed access to health care and evidence-based clinical care for transgender, gender-diverse, and nonbinary children, adolescents, and adults, as well as opposing state bans and policies intended to limit access to such care. [360] [361]
The study concluded that more needed to be done to ensure the VA provides transgender and intersex veterans with "adequate healthcare". [34] In June 2019, a Congressional Research Service report stated that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs provides "medically necessary care" to intersex and transgender veterans. [35]
One of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case on a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, Dr. Susan Lacy, poses for a portrait at her clinic in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S., November ...
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 ...
The cost of transgender-inclusive health care coverage is minimal, especially in contrast with the potential liability of an unlawful plan (not to mention the legal fees of defending a lawsuit ...