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First VA clinic for transgender vets in US opens in Ohio
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/12/ohio-va-opens-clinic-for-trans-veterans.htmlThe Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center in Ohio will provide primary care, hormone therapy and mental health care to up to 20 transgender veterans one day a month, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper....
The move comes as the Pentagon eases policies for the estimated 15,500 transgender troops actively serving (PDF) in the military, and after it announced in July that it was convening a working group to assess the impact of lifting the ban on trans soldiers altogether.
An estimated 134,000 U.S. veterans are transgender, according to the Williams Institute, a UCLA think tank that conducts research on gender identity law and policy.
Evan Young, president of the Transgender American Veterans Association, says veterans are five times as likely to be transgender as non-veterans.
The move comes as the Pentagon eases policies for the estimated 15,500 transgender troops actively serving (PDF) in the military, and after it announced in July that it was convening a working group to assess the impact of lifting the ban on trans soldiers altogether.
An estimated 134,000 U.S. veterans are transgender, according to the Williams Institute, a UCLA think tank that conducts research on gender identity law and policy.
Evan Young, president of the Transgender American Veterans Association, says veterans are five times as likely to be transgender as non-veterans.
Five times as likely?
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