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VA RIN: 2900-AP69 Publication ID: Fall 2016 
Title: Removing Gender Alterations Restriction From the Medical Benefits Package 
Abstract:

VA currently provides many services for transgender Veterans to include hormone therapy, mental health care, preoperative evaluation, and long-term care following sex reassignment surgery. Increased understanding of both gender dysphoria and surgical techniques in this area has improved significantly and is now widely accepted as medically necessary treatment. VA has been and will continue to explore a regulatory change that would allow VA to perform gender alteration surgery and a change in the medical benefits package, when appropriated funding is available. Therefore, this regulation will be withdrawn from the Fall 2016 Unified Agenda.

 
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs(VA)  Priority: Other Significant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Completed Actions 
Major: Yes  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 38 CFR 17.38   
Legal Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Withdrawn  08/17/2016 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: No  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
Public Comment URL: www.regulations.gov  
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Jillian Shipherd
Director of the LGBT Program for Patient Care Services
Department of Veterans Affairs
810 Vermont Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20420
Phone:857 364-5821
Email: jillian.shipherd@va.gov