How would this influence women veterans?
Imagine showing up at your doctor with a problem that you think is a problem. Again, urinary incontinence is a great example. They say that everyone has it. For you, it's like, “Okay, I guess I have to wear a diaper to work because I run, I have to go in trenches and I carry a rucksack”, which exacerbates pelvic dysfunction. Then you say that you have back pain and it wasn't there before your pregnancy. Again, the medic says that everyone has back pain.
Eventually, to what end...? Do you just keep going back and being told that your experience doesn't matter, that they're not going to be able to help you because everyone has it, so deal with it? Do you just keep being dismissed and feeling invalidated in your experience?
If I had to go to work every day and I was peeing myself every day, I wouldn't really want to be there either. I don't know if anyone else feels that way, but.... If there are alternatives and supports that exist for civilians, why can't I have access to that?