The Veterans Affairs at Palm Center is claiming that equity requires them to use tax dollars for any gender alterations — their term — the transgender veteran wants.
This is their claim:
Myth: Medical treatment for gender dysphoria is less important than other VA-provided care.
Fact: VAโs Impact Analysis found that โsurgical procedures are now widely accepted in the medical community as medically necessary treatment for gender dysphoria.โ If medical care meets the standard of VAโs Medical Benefits Package under 38 CFR ยง 17.38 (โneeded to promote, preserve, or restore the health of the individual and is in accord with generally accepted standards of medical practiceโ), all eligible veterans should be entitled to receive it. The American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, and six former U.S. Surgeons General agree that transgender-inclusive health care is medically necessary and promotes better health outcomes. The โgender alterationsโ exclusion was a one-of-a-kind restriction in VA policy, denying surgical services routinely provided to other veterans solely because of the reason for treatment, not its medical necessity.
What they don’t say is that studies have shown these surgeries and treatments increase suicides:
Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.
THE SUICIDE RATE IS VERY HIGH
There is a website calledย Sex change Regretย which isย authoredย by a transgender named Walter Hyerย who wrote, โYoung or old, early in transition or years later, changing genders ends in regret, and often, in a total nightmare.โ
โIโve been reporting about the widespread regret for years while everyone in the media says regret is rare,โ Mr. Hyer wrote. โThe Belgrade Center for Genital Reconstructive Surgery says that they have received requests for reversal surgery,โย he said.
He asks, โIf sex change regret is so rare, why are so many requesting reversal surgery?ย If sex change regret is so rare, why are surgeons offering reversal surgery?โ
An alarming 41% of transgender people commit suicide and for people to praise their decision to surgically alter their body when they are ill-equipped to give that advice bordersย on criminal.
The following quotes by Dr. Paul McHugh come from CNS News:
โDr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a โmental disorderโ that merits treatment, that sex change is โbiologically impossible,โ and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.
Dr. McHugh explained that transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer a โdisorder of โassumptionโโ โ the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.โ
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