Member-only story

We Got Mail

JJ Hart
3 min readMar 19, 2025

--

Image from Bruno Acquire on UnSplash.

In regard to yesterday’s post concerning the Veterans Administration’s announcement they were not going to cover gender affirming hormones, prothesis’s, and even mental health treatment for new veterans suffering from gender dysphoria anymore.

In my rant, I said, among other things, how much I disagreed with the move, even though it did not affect me. The VA said, those already receiving gender related care could keep getting it. Which, of course, means me.

One huge problem I did not mention in my post was pointed out by Denise, who pointed out, the VA’s decision to shut out trans women being discharged into the world to fend for themselves was just a smaller part of what the orange felon’s presidential administration is trying to do to erase the rights of all women in our country today. Since transgender women are a unique form of women, our rights as women are being taken away too. Which gives me yet another chance to wonder why any clear-thinking woman, trans or not, would have ever voted for the felon at all. And I will leave it at that.

On another subject concerning a post called “Why Me?’ a reader wrote in with this comment:

“Over many decades I often asked myself both “why me” and “why not me”. For decades I limited myself to underdressing…. something I told myself was just a (hopefully) harmless kink, out of the fear that if I explored…

--

--

JJ Hart
JJ Hart

Written by JJ Hart

Thanks for stopping by! I am a married Transgender veteran author and blogger. I write in the hope of helping others with similar gender dysphoria

Responses (1)