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Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
All measures taken by commanders, supervisors, individual Service members, and the MHS to promote, protect, improve, conserve, and restore the mental and physical well being of Service members across the range of military activities and ...
Source of Definition:
DOD Instruction 6480.04: Armed Services Blood Program Operational Procedures
Related Glossary Terms:
Force Health Protection | Force Health Protection | Force Health Protection | Force Health Protection Program
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
May be Service (Army, Navy, Air Force) or tri-Service operated. Responsibilities include collection, processing, manufacturing, testing, and distribution of blood products. Blood donor centers may be collocated with a blood bank in a military ...
Source of Definition:
DOD Instruction 6480.04: Armed Services Blood Program Operational Procedures
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
A medical provider who is licensed, credentialed, and experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions and is privileged at a Military Treatment Facility (in the direct care system). Private care sector civilian TRICARE ...
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
Health care services or supplies necessary to prevent, diagnose, or treat an illness, injury, condition, disease, or its symptoms; and that meet accepted standards of medicine.
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
Support network for a service member that may be informal (e.g.: friends, family, co-workers, social media.) or formal (e.g.: medical professionals, counselors, clergy).
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
A Service member has completed the medical care identified or approved by a military medical provider in a documented medical treatment plan as necessary to achieve stability in the self-identified gender.
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
Service member who has received a medical diagnosis indicating that gender transition is medically necessary, including any Service member who intends to begin transition, is undergoing transition, or has completed transition and is stable in ...
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
Data element in DEERS that identifies a service member’s gender. Service members are expected to adhere to all military standards associated with their gender marker in DEERS and use military berthing, bathroom, and shower facilities in ...
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
An individual’s internal or personal sense of gender, which may or may not match the individual’s biological sex.
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
Gender transition in the military begins when a service member receives a diagnosis from a military medical provider indicating the service member’s gender transition is medically necessary, and concludes when the service member’s ...
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
The absence of clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning associated with a marked incongruence between an individual’s experienced or expressed gender and the ...
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
Period of time when individuals change from the gender role associated with their sex assigned at birth to a different gender role. For many people, this involves learning how to live socially in another gender role. For others, this means ...
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Related Glossary Terms:
Transition
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
The gender with which an individual identifies.
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Related Glossary Terms:
Self-Identified Gender
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
A marked incongruence between one’s experienced or expressed gender and assigned gender of at least six months’ duration, as manifested by conditions specified in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and ...
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
Glossary Term
Date of Publication:
10/22/2021
Service-level cell of experts created to provide multi-disciplinary (e.g., medical, legal) advice and assistance to commanders regarding service by transgender Service members, cadets, or midshipmen and gender transition in the military.
Source of Definition:
DODI 1300.28 In-Service Transition for Transgender Service Members
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