A Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Seattle requested more than $600,000 in fiscal year 2023 to build and staff a surgical facility for performing gender-transition surgeries, although the VA has yet to approve such procedures, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The facility has offered hormone therapy, minor surgeries, hair removal, and other treatments for decades as part of an effort to expand procedures geared toward an estimated 12,500 nationwide veterans who have been diagnosed as gender dysphoric, according to the documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation via public records requests.
But the documents and emails show that the VA medical center at Puget Sound also estimated to incur expenses of $642,562 in 2023 and more than $1.5 million by 2027 in an initial proposal to the VA’s health care system for funding to…
