Cosmetic surgery should not be funded at taxpayer expense. If these freaks want their balls taken off, they can pay for it themselves.
Transgender veterans sue to have gender-affirming surgery covered by Department of Veteran Affairs (msn.com)
A group of transgender veterans filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the Department of Veteran Affairs to begin providing and paying for gender-affirming surgeries. She said the surgeries are needed to reduce the risk of suicides, depression, and psychological distress for transgender people who live with gender dysphoria.“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 of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington.
“I get phone calls from veterans that are so in crisis that they are calling us because they can't handle it anymore and they are wanting to go kill themselves,” Eshler said. Natalie Kastner, a 39-year-old disabled veteran from Texas, said she went to the VA in 2022 seeking surgery. When doctors there denied her request, she said she took a knife and attempted self-castration. She hit an artery and almost died, but doctors were able to save her life.
“I did not go into that bathroom looking to kill myself,” she said. “I went into that bathroom looking to fix myself. I can only imagine how many others have done the same and have not been so lucky and have simply been listed as a suicide.” Eshler said she hopes the lawsuit also will standardize the care transgender veterans receive, which said can vary from state to state and even clinic to clinic. The lawsuit asks the court to compel the VA to respond to the petition within 30 days.