Transgender Community Win At The VA
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/06/transgender_community_win_at_the_va.php6/28/11
On June 10, 2011, the day that many transgender veterans had been waiting for finally arrived. The Veterans Health Administration, a division of the Veterans Affairs Department, released the much anticipated directive toward transgender and intersex veterans. It's called, "Providing Health Care for Transgender and Intersex Veterans," VHA Directive 2011-024. A .pdf file can be found on the VA website.
This has been a decade long journey, when the community first discovered the inconsistency of treatment in VA facilities for our transgender, transsexual and intersex veterans. In January of 2003, they formed the Transgender American Veterans Association and later became a 501 (c)3 organization. TAVA helped to make this issue well known with people in Congress and many others in the VA and veterans organizations.
