I’m a little confused by all this. I would imagine that the transgender people serving in the military are mostly born women who transgendered into men.
Now, if that’s the case, and they transgendered before they joined the military, why would there be medical costs associated with them?
If that’s not the case, then why not just join as a woman since women are already permitted to join? I don’t understand how this impacts the transgenders already enlisted - especially if their are 5000-10,000 of them, which seems like a lot to me but never mind.
The problem is the expensive hormone therapy required to maintain the transition. Body parts can be removed and/or altered, but the body continues to produce the hormones of the biological sex no matter how much the body itself is altered.