The beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs — the agency that’s still failing to give adequate medical care to some former military members (you know, the job it’s actually tasked with doing) — is now contemplating providing what a Washington Post headline absurdly calls “gender-confirming surgery for veterans.” (Who knew you needed a doctor to affirm a person’s biological makeup?)

The manifesto states, “[R]ecent medical research shows that gender dysphoria is a serious condition that has had severe medical consequences for certain patients if transition-related surgeries and procedures are not provided. In light of these medical advances and recent research, VA would revise its regulation to remove the prohibition on medical services that are considered gender alterations.”

House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs chairman Rep. Jeff Miller responded, “[N]ot once has anyone raised this issue as a pressing need. Additionally, in the nearly two years I’ve known VA Secretary Bob McDonald, not once has he suggested this issue is a pressing need. That’s why I’m calling on him to publicly explain why VA should be in the business of performing sex-reassignment operations that have no connection to military service at a time when the department is struggling to provide even the most basic services to veterans and major problems plague almost every corner of the organization.”

It’s unfathomable that we live under an administration that puts a greater emphasis on promoting “LGBT rights” through military social engineering than actually helping veterans on waiting lists, some of whom are dying. If this administration truly cared about our veterans’ wellbeing, it wouldn’t be pursuing its farcical tranny agenda. Nor would it be helping to rehire the person who helped drag down the agency to begin with.