Natalie Kastner / PHOTO: via AP ( Headline USA ) A group of transgender veterans filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin providing and paying for sex-change surgerie s.
The lawsuit from the Transgender American Veterans Association seeks to compel the VA to codify in its regulations verbal assurances the department has made that it would begin providing those services, said Rebekka Eshler, the president of the association.
Eshler said the surgeries were needed to reduce the risk of suicides, depression and psychological distress for mentally ill transgender people who live with gender dysphoria but somehow managed to pass the military’s stringent screening requirements .
“It would also mean that those veterans do not have to seek this care through private doctors, which is often prohibitively expensive,” the transgender veterans association said in its lawsuit, which it said was filed in the United States Court […]
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