A shortage of support staff already means nurses have to leave their patients to carry food trays and do other tasks unrelated to nursing. It will get a lot worse.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will no longer offer gender-affirming medical treatment to transgender former service ...

Transgender veterans who are already getting such care will be exempt. The announcement triggered widespread alarm among transgender veterans who accused the VA of abandoning Americans who had ...

Nationwide, more than nine million veterans get physical or mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

VA is partnering with the Department of Defense to expand care options and improve coordination for transitioning service ...

In an internal VA memo seen by NPR Friday, the VA says it's rescinding Directive 1341, which contains detailed guidance on the kinds of care transgender veterans can receive at VA facilities.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will no longer provide hormone therapy and other gender-related care to transgender veteran patients not already receiving those treatments in the VA or Defense ...

The 2018 policy protected access to treatments like hormone therapy and pre- and post-operative care for gender-affirming surgery, though the VA has never offered transition-related surgeries.