The Department of Veterans Affairs is eliminating gender-identity initiatives across its healthcare system and redesignating LGBTQ+ veteran care coordinators as general care coordinators under a new directive intended to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders on diversity programs and gender policy.

In a June 12 memorandum sent to senior Veterans Health Administration leaders, Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and VA medical center directors, Undersecretary for Health John J. Bartrum ordered the agency to align with Trump’s executive orders “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing” and “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”

“VHA must eliminate all DEI/DEIA programs, gender-identity based and gender-ideology based initiatives, and any activities, internal or external, that promote gender identity or gender ideology,” Bartrum wrote.

The memo, reported by Military Times, states that VA funds, facilities, official time and other resources cannot be used for “meetings, training, working groups, promotional materials, events, or any activities promoting gender-ideology or gender-identity.”

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