Biden's Dept. of Veterans Affairs provided genital mutilation/transgender procedures despite ban as per documents

For years, the Department of Veterans Affairs thumbed its nose at a rule banning “gender alterations,” turning itself into a one-stop shop for vets looking to play dress-up as the opposite sex. 

Internal documents spill the beans: the VA—yes, the same outfit fitting war heroes with prosthetic limbs—was handing out prosthetic peckers dubbed “3-in-1 (pee/pack/play),” fake boobs, chest binders, wigs, and even dilators for artificial vajayjays.

Federal regulations say “gender alterations” are off-limits for VA medical services. But the VA played word games, claiming that only meant the slice-and-dice surgeries. “Since 2011, VA has provided all medically necessary transition-related care for transgender and gender diverse Veterans except surgeries,” one document brags. Leave it to bureaucrats to dodge a rule by splitting hairs finer than a frog’s butt.

Then the Biden crew took it up a notch, stretching “medically necessary” like a cheap rubber band. Back in 2020, a doctor said hair removal was just cosmetic—no dice. Fast forward to Biden’s watch, and they’re teaching VA staff how to farm out laser jobs to zap hair off a trans veteran’s “face/neck, back, chest, abdomen, or genitalia,” billing it under a sneaky “unlisted procedure code for skin, mucous membrane, and subcutaneous tissue.” 

Slick move, huh?

It gets weirder. The VA even roped in “parking attendants or valets, maintenance staff, [and] housekeepers” for a PowerPoint pep talk, making them “Articulate the key elements of VHA’s Directive on Providing Health Care for Transgender and Intersex Veterans” and coaching them to ask vets, “Hey, what name, gender, and pronoun do you vibe with?”—all so they could bunk them in hospital rooms with whoever matched their fantasy gender.

Cue the Trump administration on Monday, riding in with an executive order titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. They’re slamming the brakes on “medical treatments for gender dysphoria,” except for vets already mid-transition at the VA. Before that, Biden’s squad went hog-wild expanding the trans buffet—hormones, voice lessons, egg-and-sperm storage, you name it.

Biden-era papers even teased changing the rules to green-light surgeries, but whined it’d take years. One gem, “Gender-Affirming Care at VA: Resources for Providers,” admits, “While VA cannot provide gender-affirming surgeries at this time,” they’d still slap a gender dysphoria label on veterans, juice ‘em up with hormones, train their vocal cords, yank their body hair, and pen love letters to outside surgeons begging for the chop. 

An April 2024 slide from an “LGBTQ+ Veterans Care Coordinator” adds they’d cover “medically necessary post-operative and long-term care following gender-affirming surgery”—think revision cuts or snipping nuts if the hormone cocktail went sideways.

VA staff got crash courses on “diagnosing gender dysphoria” and “assessment of readiness and consent for hormone therapy,” with tricks to book a “transgender and gender diverse national e-consult” linking local docs to trans “expert hub teams” in Minneapolis and Tucson. One catch: the e-consult screen flashes a warning that “for individuals still active in the military (e.g., Guard, Reserves, Active Duty) transgender identity can be grounds for discharge and their VA medical records are accessible by the military.” 

Whoops.

The VA—whose motto, straight from Abe Lincoln, is “To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan”—even rolled out a “Gender-Affirming Program with Speech (GAPS).” That’s “4-8 individual sessions with a speech-language pathologist” to help dudes sound like dames, “achieving your authentic and affirming voice,” plus tips to keep their laughs, coughs, and sneezes from blowing their cover. Tax dollars hard at work.

They even cranked out form letters to nudge outside docs into doing genital jobs, like this cookie-cutter pitch: “I support (honorific) XXXX’s decision to undergo genital surgery, and I am available for coordination of care.” Just fill in the blank and sign. Another version gushes, “We are of the opinion that [veteran] meets all of the criteria for a vaginoplasty, as set forth in the WPATH Standards of Care, Version 7.” Oh, and veterans could tweak the “birth sex” field on their records too, because “despite the medical implications…this is the Veteran’s right.” Sure, why not?

Monday, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins dropped the hammer, saying all this nonsense is toast. “I mean no disrespect to anyone, but VA should not be focused on helping Veterans attempt to change their sex,” he said. “The vast majority of Veterans and Americans agree, and that is why this is the right decision.” Cash saved from ditching these “specific medical treatments for gender dysphoria” will now prop up real heroes—think paralyzed vets and amputees—helping them claw back some independence.

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“All eligible Veterans — including trans-identified Veterans — will always be welcome at VA and will always receive the benefits and services they’ve earned under the law,” the department swore. “But if Veterans want to attempt to change their sex, they can do so on their own dime.” Bathrooms and rooms? Back to birth sex rules. The VA also torched Veterans Health Administration Directive 1341(4), which propped up this circus.

Here’s the kicker: the VA “has not kept consistent and reliable records” on how many vets got these treatments, how much it cost, or how many staffers were roped in. Best guess? Less than 0.1% of the 9.1 million vets in VA care are trans-identified. Small potatoes, big headache.

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Transgenders detransitioning hits an amazing high: 3000%!

The rate of "detransition" of people who had their genitals mutilated was around 1% but suddenly jumped to 30% and because of this, WPATH transgender doctor Amaya Deakins is calling for WPATH to begin research and develop standards of care for gender dysphoric people who began gender-affirming "care" [a useful euphemism for cutting off body parts to make the victim to sort of appear to be the opposite gender], and later came to regret it.  

Deakins tweeted: 

Should receive support and treatment just like those who transition. I do not want anyone to be harmed by the practice of #GAC However this appears to be the case for some adolescents. I call on @wpath leadership to develop detrans psychological And medical treatment protocols.— Dr. Amaya Deakins (@amayadeakins)

Just about a year ago, Deakins was on the opposite side of this issue, claiming that the number of people who decided against continuing their transition was tiny. This view supported the general lack of interest in finding non-medical treatments for gender dysphoria and in developing care standards for those who regret their "treatments."

Now, the rate of detransition is up to 30%, but Deakins says, "But don’t worry your experience is 'valid'."

I wonder why they're admitting this now? I wonder what's coming that has them scrambling to cover their tracks.

It was just about a year ago that Deakins was on the other side of the issue, asserting that the rate of desisting was minuscule, which justified the near-indifference to finding ways to treat people with gender dysphoria without resorting to medical treatment and for ignoring developing standards of care for people who regret their "treatments."

Now it’s 30%. But don’t worry your experience is “valid”.
I wonder what has them admitting this? I wonder what is coming that they are now scurrying around trying to run cover. [link] [image]— Audra Worlow  (@audrawrongspeak) February 1, 2025

Most people aren't aware, but doctors who specialize in gender transition rarely, if ever, treat those who decide to detransition, leaving them in a medical limbo. As Deakins admits, there are no standards of care, even though he acknowledges that detransition rates are 30 times higher than what WPATH usually recognizes.

Most people don't know, but gender-bending doctors rarely, if ever, treat people who decide to abandon their "transition"--leaving such people in a medical limbo. As Deakins points out, there are no standards of care, despite his own admission that detransition rates are 30x what WPATH generally acknowledges.

I absolutely believe that we (healthcare providers) must be and do better. I call for increased research in all facets of GAC And to investigate wether there's any validity to the AGP phenomenon I feel @wpath must develop standardized psychotherapy treatments and getting gender— Dr. Amaya Deakins (@amayadeakins) January 31, 2025

The strong ideological beliefs of activists in the LGBTQ+H2O community have led to the false claim that detransition is rare. In reality, the numbers might be much higher because follow-up rates are very low, and many patients just disappear from the system. They also argue there's no need to care for de-transitioners because they supposedly don't exist.

Deakins is right to criticize his colleagues, but this change in tune is likely because the reality is now too clear to ignore, and sticking to the old story could end careers. The ideology surrounding these issues is falling apart fast, and it might soon be viewed as one of the largest medical scandals in recent history. Best to address it head-on now.

It's not like this was a hidden fact. For years, people hurt by these treatments have been asking for help and being ignored. Anyone involved with WPATH or following this issue knew this was the case.

But there was too much money and influence at stake to admit the truth.

It wasn't a surprise to Dr. Deakins that the regret rates were far higher than the 1% he claimed in 2023. He just couldn't admit it then because the ideological environment wouldn't allow it.

We're now in the phase where truths can finally be told, and those involved are starting to distance themselves from the controversy.

Let's hope they face the consequences, metaphorically speaking.

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Rear Admiral Rachel Levine opens WPATH Conference: "This is a call to action"

Montreal -- The oxymoronic-named World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) kicked off its 27th annual conference on Saturday with US Navy Rear Adm. Rachel Levine.

Levine, is a man who suffers from gender dysphoria and thinks he's a woman, and he is also the assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Levine's speech sounded like a Marxist "call to action" which is strange coming from an address to medical professionals.  He actually called on the audience to think of themselves as “ambassadors for science” and insisted on a “proactive” rather than “passive” approach to educating the masses. 

“Our task quite simply is to educate the public in the United States and throughout the world, in as many forms as possible,” Levine proclaimed. “We have the power to expand the boundaries of science and of public understanding.”

Levine's manifesto sounds like a way to justify his own psychological issues and perhaps those in the audience. 

The president of WPATH, Dr. Walter Bouman, and president-elect Dr. Marci Bowers, led the opening ceremony with a few words before they were interrupted by a group of activists who took over the podium with a banner and a prepared speech: “We’re just going to crash the party, no offense to anybody meant,” said one activist, while several others raised the banner. WPATH officials cut off the feed to their livestream for several minutes during the unplanned demonstration.

The livestream commenced as the activists were listing their demands, which included “Adoption of the Standards of Care, free of psychomedical barriers, and entirely based on autonomy and informed consent,” as one “transfeminine” activist read aloud to an approving, mentally ill audience. “We want free access to all trans-affirmative care,” they continued, as the conference attendees cheered. Bouman and Bowers stood by, nodding their heads in approval of the interruption and the Communist demands of taxpayers footing their bills.

The activists also demanded universal medical coverage for trans-identifying immigrants, regardless of immigration status, and an end to the “criminalization of sex work.” 

Their last unfathomable request was for the “recognition of transfeminicide as an international humanitarian crisis,” for which the conference attendees gave a standing ovation for something that is as unreal as the gender a transgender person claims to be when their genitals don't correspond to their claim.

Dr. Marci Bowers, is a surgeon who specializes in genital mutilation of both sexes, and believes he is a woman. When the activists' speech ended, he  waltzed back up to the podium, whereupon he bragged about his appointment as the first “transfeminine person” to be elected President of WPATH in its 43-year history. He is also the guy Matt Walsh interviewed in his documentary "What is a Woman" and was unable to provide a scientific answer.

Levine took to the stage after a lengthy introduction from Bowers. “I truly stand on the shoulders of those who came before me,” said Levine. “As we all know, progress brings new and inevitable challenges.”

“I’ve heard from parent after parent, family after family, who have either considered moving to different states in the United States or have moved so that their child can access the medical care they need and deserve,” began Levine. By medical care, he means having their possibly confused child, or gay child, agreeing to have their genitals cut off and replaced with a facsimile of genitals of the opposite sex.

“These stories are heartbreaking. It is critically important that medical decisions and the public pronouncements of them are based on science and human compassion rather than slander and stigmatization.”

Levine is wrong. The "science" is far from settled. What WPATH's new official guidelines refers to as "the science" has been scrutinized by The Society of Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) and they wrote a  critique in January 2022 citing the lack of scientific rigor and the possible harm due to very low-quality evidence.

WPATH says its guidelines were written “based on available evidence” but cite flawed, cherry-picked studies to support their self-serving conclusions. “The current description of the literature betrays a strong bias toward studies promoting social and medical transition,” says SEGM.

Levine falsely asserts that transgender youth don’t have underlying mental health issues that may be contributing to or causing their dysphoria. He claims that “It is the bullying, it is the harassment, the discrimination that transgender youth face that leads to these outcomes.”

“Gender-affirming care is medical care. Gender-affirming care is mental health care. Simply put, gender-affirming care is suicide prevention care,” Levine claims, but giving the surgery and  irreversible chemical castration medications involved in the procedures a nice sounding name doesn't change what it is.

These are children he speaks of--they are confused, somewhat stupid human beings at this stage of their development [and we love them] and we cannot allow them to make life altering decisions about their bodies.

It's freaking evil shrouded in lies. Levine claims so-called gender affirming care prevents suicide is a debunked claim that posits trans-identified minors are more likely to commit suicide if they are denied “gender affirming” medical treatments. 

When researchers compared “trans” youth to teens with similar mental health problems, but not including gender dysphoria, there was little difference in suicide rates, suggesting that withholding “gender affirming” care is not a driver of suicidal ideation.

“It is wrong to politicize medical care,” continued Levine, who then went on to advocate for the politicization of medicalized gender transition, with the full support of the Biden administration. He says laws that prevent kids from accessing irreversible medical procedures is "anti-LGBTQ policies" and thus he added, “So I have a call to action. This is a call to action for all of you. I firmly believe that as a society, we have not made progress unless we have made progress for all.”

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Now you know why Levine isn't just an ordinary Admiral--he's a Rear Admiral.

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