EXCLUSIVE: VA Will Save ‘Literally Millions Of Dollars’ By Scrapping Sex Changes, Sec Says

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins said his agency will save “literally millions of dollars” by no longer providing transgender procedures in an exclusive sit-down interview with the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation.

The VA announced in March that it had ended programs providing “gender-affirming” prosthetics, cross-sex hormones and other transgender treatments under multiple presidencies — including the first Trump administration. Collins told the DCNF that the taxpayer money saved through his policy will be used to help veterans in need of more conventional health treatments.

“If we went ahead with this, it would be literally millions of dollars,” Collins told the DCNF.

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The VA has faced complaints across multiple presidencies about low-quality care, substandard medical facilities and slow bureaucracy. Before Collins, the agency considered it a priority to provide items such as fake female breasts, wigs, fake genitalia and “chest binders” for trans-identifying people, the DCNF previously reported.

“That’s just not something we’re going to do in the VA … because it really doesn’t fit our mission and where we’re supposed to be, and I think the general public understands that we’re not going to continue to go down this flight of gender dysphoria,” Collins said.