The Pentagon will resume gender transition care such as hormone therapy and surgery for transgender service members following a series of legal setbacks.
“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,” Dr. Stephen Ferrara, the Pentagon’s acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, wrote in a memo dated Monday that was obtained by Politico.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in February ordered all military branches to pause accepting recruits with histories of gender dysphoria and halt some gender-affirming health care for transgender service members. It was in line with a Jan. 27 executive order by President Donald Trump that banned transgender individuals from serving in the military.
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