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Transgender Veterans Hope Trump Policy Won’t Erase Progress At VA

The future of transgender troops has been in question since President Trump Tweeted that they would no longer be allowed to serve. Transgender veterans are wondering how the president’s pronouncement will impact the ongoing effort to open the Veterans Health Administration to their needs. Navy veteran Kristen Dancer served as a corpsman in Fallujah in 2006. With the help of VA doctors , Dancer transitioned to being a woman in 2016. She gets her medical care at the VA hospital in La Jolla. The VA does not offer transition surgery, but it does provide services like hormone therapy, counseling and speech pathology. “They help feminize our voice to help put us in a better tone and a better range,” Dancer said. Like other veterans who made their transitions after they served, Dancer feared President Trump’s threat to ban transgender service members will turn back the clock at the VA. “I don’t know if that means that, based on his Tweets, whether we’re all going to be kicked to the curb and

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