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The life-and-death stakes of gender affirmation are closely tied to alarming numbers of suicides and suicidal ideation in the transgender community. They allege the Biden administration is dragging its feet, with the summer announcement a proclamation that didn't herald an immediate change in policy. Rather, it kicked off a formal rulemaking process that can take about two years to complete.

Transgender veterans and their advocates say the VA is unnecessarily using a slow and bureaucratic process and that communication between them and the department since the summer has been minimal, leaving them in the lurch as they wait for care considered medically necessary by leading health groups including the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association. Much of the groundwork for a rule change was done in , when the Obama administration was contemplating covering surgical procedures.

If Hillary Clinton got elected, it would have been implemented that year. The fact that transgender service members came close to full medical support at the end of Obama's tenure, but still are fighting to receive coverage, makes the bureaucratic wait insufferable for advocates. The department has undertaken the rulemaking process to change the surgery policy in fits and starts before, but it's starting from scratch this time around.

In , when nonsurgical care began to be covered for transgender veterans, VA regulations were updated to specify the department's medical benefits package did not include "gender alterations.

Then in , the Obama administration started the process that would have allowed the VA to cover surgeries, but scuttled it after Trump won that year's presidential election, citing funding concerns. When Trump announced over Twitter he was banning military service by transgender Americans, he claimed in part the military would be "burdened with the tremendous medical costs. Minority Veterans of America has called Trump's transgender military ban a "mar on our nation's military history," and four years of the Trump administration and a halting of momentum for medical care for transgender service members only added to a sense of urgency once Biden took office.

Advocates suspect the Obama administration scrapped the idea to cover surgery for transgender veterans at the end of his tenure because the process couldn't be finished before the next administration, opposed to the rule change, took office.

Now, the clock is again running for those vets. Because the ban on gender-affirmation surgery is part of a formal regulation, the VA says it must go through the formal rulemaking process to change the policy under the federal Administrative Procedure Act. Since McDonough's announcement, the VA has started drafting the new rule and a formal cost-benefit analysis called a Regulatory Impact Analysis, the department told Military. The cost-benefit analysis is a required part of the rulemaking process.

The proposed rule is undergoing internal VA reviews right now and will next go to the White House Office of Management and Budget for evaluation. The Biden administration's focus on process and following the Administration Procedure Act comes after the Trump administration consistently lost lawsuits pointing to that law and accusing Trump of arbitrary and capricious policy changes.

The department has already started planning how to actually conduct surgeries, which it said it expects to happen at a mix of VA and non-VA facilities. The VA also said it "has continued dialogue with LGBTQ advocacy groups" despite some claiming a lack of communication, but added those groups have the same information as the public about the rulemaking process. The National Center for Transgender Equality estimates there are about , transgender veterans.

Not every transgender person needs surgery, and the VA's initial estimate is that about 4, veterans may meet the medical criteria, it told Military. In , the VA estimated Veterans Health Administration patients could seek transition-related treatment annually if the policy were changed to allow surgery, according to an economic impact analysis disclosed as part of a lawsuit filed in by two transgender veterans seeking to have their surgeries covered.

In response to the lawsuit, the VA in took public comment on whether to cover surgery, as part of a key step in the rulemaking process. Because the department already did cost analysis in and took public comment in , transgender veterans and advocates question why the VA can't expedite the rulemaking process now.

Jennifer Dane, executive director of the LGBTQ military and veterans group Modern Military Association of America, said her organization has gotten no guidance on how far the VA has advanced with the policy change since the summer announcement.

The VA told Military. One of those veterans is Sarah Klimm, who realized she was transgender about halfway through her year career in the Marine Corps. Klimm has explored getting facial feminization surgery, which she hopes would help stop people from calling her the wrong gender and other discrimination she has experienced out in public. Am I going to be able to finally get this when I'm 70 years old? I want to be able to enjoy who I am completely while I still have some youth left.

But that's still cost prohibitive, particularly because she has six children and a wife to think about. The rulemaking process has already started on this in I used to smoke cigarettes. I used to smoke marijuana on a regular everyday basis. I used to drink. All those things, man, just fell away. I used to be addicted to porn, man. Anything you pay attention to is something that has a hold on you. Zenger : Would you say too much too fast is why you fell into those traps? Or do you feel that was something within you that money and fame brought out?

Jones : I think born into this world; we all have to go through it. We all have to face something. We have to overcome something, and those were some of the things I had to overcome. My life situations brought me to that point. Those were the things that I was addicted to; those were the things that were in my life. My pops and my mom smoked cigarettes when I was very young. All of my life situations brought me to the point where I was at…but I think we as human beings all have to overcome something.

Whether it be an addiction to social media, addiction to pills…anything, we can be addicted to people too. I think we have to overcome those things and just understand that loving yourself is more important than anything. Jones : In a way, yeah! I found love in me. I fell in love with the person I am. I love myself more than I love anybody else, more than I love anything else.

I love myself more. Zenger : Will that be available on your website www. Jones : It is. It will be on my website. Back then, I was so young, man. My voice has changed.