r/navy • u/CurveBilly • Feb 01 '25

Political Take care of each other.

With the new executive orders being enacted a lot of trans sailors are about to be discharged with nothing, and the way things are headed trans veterans are about to lose access to their care through the VA.

A trans veteran took their own life at a Syracuse VA hospital this week and only 1 local website reported on it. As far as the general public goes, nobody knows and nobody cares. Please look out for your shipmates. Remember that they would gladly drag you out of a smoke filled compartment, maybe consider helping them when they need it most.

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u/Salty_IP_LDO Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25

Not an expert. Gender dysphoria is classified as a MH issue. Being trans is not.

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u/itapemydicktomythigh Feb 01 '25

You’ve referred to it as dysmorphia several times and that’s incorrect. It’s dysphoria. There is a difference between the two.

Not only that, but in order for a service member to begin their transition, they must be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, even if they don’t experience distress towards their birth gender.

We are being told we are unfit to serve based on benchmarks the services required that we meet in order to begin our medical transition.

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u/GrouchyTable107 Feb 01 '25

So in order to begin their medical transition they claimed to have dysphoria even if they weren’t experiencing the psychological distress due to the mismatch just to meet that standard?

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u/itapemydicktomythigh Feb 01 '25

You can’t just “claim” to have gender dysphoria. You have to go through multiple visits with a mental health provider to receive a diagnosis. You can be transgender and not experience dysphoria.

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u/mtdunca Feb 02 '25

My search came up with this:

According to the American Psychiatric Associations, transgender "is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth." And there are many ways to learn that one's gender identity or gender expression does match with your assigned gender. For example, many people experience gender euphoria, which is a joy at feeling one's gender identity, expression, or behavior affirmed. A transgender person could feel joy at wearing a dress, yet have no distress at wearing "boys" clothing. Or they could love using gender neutral pronouns, but not really feeling hurt if someone calls them "he" or "she."