Hi Everyone,

I am the current Active Duty Service Members Liaison to the Transgendered American Veterans Association (TAVA), and we have now become a 501 (c) 3 organization. We are looking for transgender veterans or current active duty members that would be interested in joining our organization. 

                                      Who We Are

The Transgendered American Veterans Association (TAVA) was formed to address the growing converns of fair and equal treatment of transgender veterans and active duty service members. As the population of gender-different people increases, then so does the population of veterans and active duty service members who identify as such. TAVA serves as an educational organization that will help the Veterans Administration and the Department of Defense to better understand the individuals they encounter who identify as being gender-different. As veterans, we have also served proudly, and will continue to do so. The TAVA is here to help where we can.

                                      Our Mission

The Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) acts proactively with other concernd GLBT organizations to ensure that transsexual and transgender veterans will receive appropriate care for medical conditions in accordance with the Veterans Health Asministration Customer Service Standards promise to "treat you with courtesy and dignity..as the first class citizen that you are." Further, the TAVA will help in educating the VA and the US Military on issues regardling fair and equal treatment of transgender and transsexual individuals. The TAVA will also educate for a change in public law and policy that will help initiate this fair and equal treatment.

                                      How To Join The TAVA

To join you need to be either a Veteran of the United States Armed Forces, or a current Active Duty member of the United States Armed Forces. To submit or print out the membership application, the url is, http://www.tavausa.org/join.html.

There is also a great Yahoo! version of the TAVA that members can subscribe to once they have joined the TAVA organization. To subscribe to the Yahoo! group the url is, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TAVA/. Lastly for individuals that would like to read more about the TAVA, the official website url is, http://www.tavausa.org.

If anyone is interested in the TAVA in any way, or has questions, please email me at Michael7668@yahoo.com or my official TAVA email address at service@tavausa.org.