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.