The Pentagon will be resuming providing sex change treatments and surgeries for transgender servicemembers or transgender dependents of servicemembers.
The change was announced in a memo dated Monday, but first reported on by Politico on Thursday.
“Service members and all other covered beneficiaries 19 years of age or older may receive appropriate care for their diagnosis of [gender dysphoria], including mental health care and counseling and newly initiated or ongoing cross-sex hormone therapy,” the memo, signed by Stephen Ferrara, acting assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, read.
“Service members may also receive voice therapy and appropriate surgical procedures,” the memo continued.
The return to Biden-era transgender policies comes after a judge struck down Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s changes that prohibited coverage of sex change procedures and hormones, deeming it “unconstitutional.”
The judge also struck down the ban on transgender people serving in the military, which was part of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump at the beginning of his presidency.
Politico reports:
Hegseth, in a Wednesday speech at the Army War College, celebrated the first 100 days of the Trump administration by telling the assembled officers that there is “no more social engineering … no more gender confusion, no more pronouns, no more excuses,” within the military.
Some officials saw the move as a capitulation by the administration, which was settling for a loss in court while continuing to wage a public relations war to keep transgender service members out of the military.
“They’ve scared all of the trans people off,” said one person close to the Pentagon familiar with the conversations, granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue. “What’s to be gained by continuing to fight with the courts? It seems pretty easy to stop getting crazy with it. You won. You got what you wanted.”
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