Here are some of the important parts as they appeared in the revised draft:
•This directive does not apply to patients who receive benefits under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA).
•A diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is not a pre-condition for receiving care consistent with the veteran's self-identified gender.
•All staff, including medical and administrative staff, are required to treat as confidential any information about a patient's transgender status or any treatment related to a patient's gender transition, unless the patient has given permission to share this information.
•Diversity awareness training, (which educates staff on providing unbiased, respectful care to all veterans) is available to supervisors and employees.
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/05/the_va_ ... of_tra.php
) She told me that HRT for trans vets is something that sits in a grey area right now -being something that is perscribed if it's in the best interest of the patient. I told her that I didn't care about a scrip and only needed blood work and advice, and I'd just keep self-medding anyway. There was a scrip waiting for me when I left. I picked up my first bottle of a hundred-and-eighty one-hundred milligram tablets of spiro that day, and the estradiol came two days later, in the mail, because they were out of it. She called me back promptly to discuss the results of my bloodwork, too.
