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“It seems like directives don’t matter, [and now] I feel like I gave people false reassurance,” psychologist Dr. Mary Brinkmeyer told The Advocate.
The Trump administration quietly reversed the policy, which means trans veterans won't be protected from discrimination at VA facilities.
A proposal to cover such surgeries for trans vets has been withdrawn because the VA didn't have a plan to pay for it.
As many as a million gay and lesbian veterans depend on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for health care--including many who can't get HIV/AIDS care anywhere else. It's reason enough for GLBT activists to keep an eye on the Bush administration's coming cutbacks
She says she was made to suffer the indignity of being kicked out of the bathroom on federal property.
Police have revealed little about how Taja DeJesus, an active member of her local trans community, came to be in the stairwell where she was murdered.
Rev. Caroline Morrison reveals the profound intertwining of duty, faith, and self-acceptance.
The decision comes just as the Department of Health and Human Services is deciding whether to implement the Affordable Care Act’s endorsement of trans-affirming healthcare for private insurers.
The announcement comes days after the VA denied it was rolling back policies for trans people’s dignity.
Activists have long lobbied for such surgery to be included in the health care provided by the Veterans Administration.
The Transgender American Veterans Association filed a lawsuit on Thursday over the Department of Veterans Affairs’ failure to act after years of inaction.
The death of Noony Norwood is the 24th reported murder of a trans person in 2016.
Montana looks to have become the very first state to hear an anti-trans bill in 2025 — a bathroom ban targeting adult transgender people in any publicly owned building.
