VA publicly confirms the redesignation and the scope of the website/communications sweep

Asked to confirm the memo's effect, VA's press secretary stated that redesignating the LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinators is "the plan, full stop," and that the memo's compliance requirement "applies to anything you read on the website" — confirming that the directive's reach extends to VA's public-facing content, not merely to internal programming. VA declined to address how the uniform-standards provision would be applied. VA's assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs did not respond to The Advocate's questions about how LGBTQ+ veterans would receive specialized support under the new policy.