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Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage

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The Trump administration is making it more difficult for veterans with a rare but deadly cancer to get their health care needs covered by the government. The new policy, involving breast cancer in men, is laid out in a Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica.

The previously undisclosed document does not cite any evolving science. Rather, it relies on an order that President Donald Trump issued on his first day in office titled: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”

An agency spokesperson confirmed the change.

“As of Sept. 30, the department no longer presumes service connection for male breast cancer,” press secretary Pete Kasperowicz wrote in a statement to ProPublica.​
 

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Where is the link between the Trump order and what the VA has decided to do? Is it actually a consequence of how the order is worded, or is the VA just using it as a smoke screen to cut coverage?

Nevermind, it was in the story just buried under a whole bunch of unnecessary background. The classification as a reproductive organ is questionable, and the move seems to affect their ability to be short listed rather than cutting benefits.
 
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