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Department Of Veterans Affairs Obscures Its Participation In A Self-Harm Cult

Department Of Veterans Affairs Obscures Its Participation In A Self-Harm Cult

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Matt Osborne
Mar 24, 2025
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Responsive to Donald Trump’s executive order, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced last Monday “that it will phase out medical treatments for gender dysphoria.”

Funds saved on drugs and surgeries for new patients “will be redirected to help severely injured VA beneficiaries — such as paralyzed Veterans and amputees — regain their independence.”

Cross-sex hormone ‘therapy’ will still be available to veterans who were already made dependent on it, whether on active duty or as VA patients.

This was good news, but it came with a curious denial. “Although VA has never offered sex-change surgeries, the department has been providing treatment for gender dysphoria for more than a decade,” reads the official statement.

We note the contrary example of James ‘Elisa Rae’ Shupe, who checked into a VA hospital last December for what he claimed was an orchiectomy, or removal of his testicles, prior to vaginoplasty, the creation of a pseudo-vagina from his penis.

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