The Transgender American Veterans Association Reacts to the Pentagon Announcing Open Transgender Service
The United States Department of Defense announced the long anticipated news that Transgender Americans will now be able to openly choose to volunteer to serve their country. Transgender Americans are twice as likely as their cisgender (non-trans) peers to serve in the Armed Forces, according to a study's findings released by the Williams Institute at the UCLA' School of Law. Now, finally, they will be able to serve without having to hide who they are, in pride of serving our nation. - July 04, 2016
The Transgender American Veterans Association Reports on Detailed Guidance from the Pentagon
Evan Young, Major US Army retired, President of Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA), attended a phone conference with senior officials from NCTE, OutServe-SLDN, SPARTA, AVER, AMPA, The PALM Center, WPATH, and a senior defense official immediately after the announcement of the long awaited military's lifting of the ban on transgender service. - July 03, 2016
Transgender American Veterans Association Releases a Statement on the Orlando Atrocity
The proud patriotic veterans and service members of Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) share the nation's horror and outrage that our sacred national freedom was violated by an individual who killed and injured over 100 LGBT Americans in Orlando this past weekend. What we LGBT people... - June 16, 2016
Transgender American Veterans Assn. Elects Vice President of the Board of Directors
The Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) today announced the election of Gene Silvestri as Vice President of the Board of Directors. The Board makes policy decisions, authorizes rulemaking and oversees the TAVA's operations. Gene is a U.S. Army disabled transgender veteran, and... - April 30, 2016
Transgender American Veterans Assn. Brings a Highly Experienced Leader on Board
On October 20th, Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) brought Zander Keig, a key leader in the transgender community, to their board of directors. His experience and leadership will take TAVA to higher levels of engagement benefiting America's transgender veterans across the... - October 31, 2015
TAVA Adds Experienced Veterans to Board
In mid February 2015, the Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) brought two highly experienced, patriotic veterans to their board; enhancing their outreach and mission of serving America’s transgender veterans and advocating for their benefits and for the honor, duty, and right to... - March 08, 2015
Transgender Veterans Elect New Leaders
TAVA, America’s national association of transgender armed forces veterans, elected new leadership for 2015 and set initiatives for coming the year. - January 16, 2015