Department Of Defense Will Terminate “Medical Treatments” For Gender Transitions
However, troops with “Gender Dysphoria” can still receive mental care and counseling.
By Catholics for Catholics
The Pentagon announced that it will terminate “medical treatments” for service members who identify as transgender with gender dysphoria (GD), according to a story by Epoch Times.
“Within the direct care component, meaning at military medical treatment facilities … Service members and all other covered beneficiaries 19 years of age or older may only receive mental health care and counseling for GD,” Dr. Stephen L. Ferrara, acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said in the memo, which is dated May 9.
The U.S. Department of Defense did not return a request for comment by the publication time of the Epoch Times.
“Apart from consults for the diagnosis of GD and provision of mental health care and counseling … staff will refer all other care (e.g., cross-sex hormone therapy) for GD to the private sector,” continued the memorandum.
“Gender Dysphoria or GD” is the term typically used when a person believes they’re a gender that’s different from their sex.
After taking office in January, President Donald Trump said in an order that “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.”
Pentagon officials later said that all troops with a history of GD would be discharged from the armed forces, with limited exceptions. That process was paused after court rulings against the policy. The Supreme Court on May 6 stayed those rulings, enabling officials to resume the process.
On May 8, Department of Defense officials said that they were discharging about 1,000 troops who identify as transgender or otherwise have GD.
In a new memo sent to the director of the Defense Health Agency and assistant secretaries at the Army, Navy, and Air Force, Ferrara said that he was providing fresh guidance in light of the Supreme Court ruling.
The memo emphasized that military doctors are not to perform any surgeries that would aid in gender transition, such as breast removal.
In addition, Ferrara also said that all unscheduled, scheduled, and planned surgical procedures “associated with facilitating sex reassignment for Service members diagnosed with GD” are now canceled, as are any previously approved waivers for the surgeries. Ferrara said his office would accept waiver requests for care deemed medically necessary to address surgical complications.
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