February 23, 2024
The Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that it had formally rejected an 8-year-old petition for rulemaking by the Transgender American Veterans Association that sought to add gender-affirming surgery as part of VA-covered medical services, urging the Federal Circuit to toss TAVA's mandamus petition as moot.
January 29, 2024
A veterans group for those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan told the Federal Circuit on Monday that a yearslong delay by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to cover gender confirmation surgery abdicates a "sacred obligation" to those who served in the military.
January 25, 2024
A transgender veterans group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to force the VA to respond to a 2016 rulemaking petition requesting coverage of gender-confirmation surgery, saying the VA has "unreasonably delayed" its response to the petition, leaving it in limbo.