Mixed Gender Veteran Wants VA to Pay for Change

Born with male and female body parts? How did he pass the physical? Not being fresh. I just don't understand this story.

VETERAN BORN WITH MALE AND FEMALE ANATOMY WANTS VA TO PAY FOR SURGERY
ABC News
By Tom Abrahams
Thursday, December 04, 2014

HOUSTON -- Charlene Lauderdale is a veteran who says she served in combat and was awarded a Purple Heart.

"I'm a retired master sergeant in the United States Air Force. I was a flight engineer on a 141 cargo plane," she tells Eyewitness News.

She also says she born with both female and male anatomy. After living most of her life as a man, she is now legally a woman and wants the VA to pay for gender reassignment surgery.

"I've struggled with my gender all of my life," she admits. "There were times in my life where I didn't know if I was a male or a female.

After years of fighting for it, and the VA paying for hormone treatment and mental health counseling, she's suing in federal court.
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Call her "Keith" deployed soldier begins sex change

Deployed soldier begins sex change
Army Times
By Andrew Tilghman
Staff writer
Posted : Monday Oct 15, 2012

She’s a lesbian, and almost everyone in her unit knows it.

She wears her hair cropped short and has a distinctly boyish appearance.

And she’s becoming manlier by the day, now that she’s started taking male hormones.

Call her Keith. That’s the name this 26-year-old specialist, now deployed to Afghanistan, plans to take when she completes a transition begun several months ago when she started giving herself testosterone injections every other week, under the direction of a civilian doctor who specializes in gender changes.

“It’s going well. My voice is deeper, I’m getting more muscle. I feel more energy. I feel more like myself,” she told Military Times in a recent interview via Skype from her containerized housing unit in Afghanistan.
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