Posted on 11/15/2017 7:44:37 AM PST by NKP_Vet
WASHINGTON — An active-duty service member was to undergo gender transition surgery Tuesday in the first such procedure approved under a waiver allowing the Pentagon to pay for the operation, according to a Defense Department document.
The patient is an infantry soldier who identifies as a woman, according to a source close to the service member. She got her Combat Infantry Badge in Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan in 2003, the source said.
Vice Admiral Raquel Bono, head of the Defense Health Agency, which provides medical care to active-duty personnel, approved the waiver request for the surgery Monday, defense officials said.
NBC News has reached out to the Pentagon and is awaiting comment.
In August, President Donald Trump signed a memo to halt future funding for sex-reassignment surgery and also bar the Pentagon from accepting transgender recruits. Two organizations filed lawsuits challenging the move, and a federal judge blocked both bans last month.
A RAND Corporation study last year found that allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military would "have minimal impact on readiness and healthcare cost.”
The study estimated there are between 1,320 and 6,530 active-duty members out of 1.3 million service members, and predicted that hormone treatments and surgeries would cost about $2.4 to $8.4 million a year — a tiny sliver of the Pentagon budget.
CORRECTION (Nov. 14, 2017, 4:05 p.m.): An earlier version of this story misstated the location of the surgery. It is taking place at a civilian facility, not a military hospital.
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Can a flat chested female also demand a boob job and hormones?
“Pentagon to Pay for Surgery for Active-duty Transgender Soldier”
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Pentagon????????????????
Y’mean TAXPAYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RIGHT???????????????????????
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I don’t think “da pentagon’s” decision to recruit people with mental issues was a good idea. It’s going to cost the taxpayer’s a fortune.
This isn’t an injured soldier. This is a soldier who wants to mutilate himself because he is too mentally ill to realize what kind of genitals he has. This is pathetic.
I’m not sure about Pence. The lunatics quickly bullied him into amending RFRA shortly after he signed it into law in Indiana.
We’re going to wear out that .gif of Putin laughing!
An ignorant waste of money that will cost some soldier his life due to lack of something that wasteful surgery took money away from.
Obama’s military...Still Obama’s military.
How ACTIVE can this scumbag be from a hospital bed?
I guess they’ll have to start paying for any medical procedure.
EVERYONE even REMOTELY connected to Obama should be gone and ASAP. Obama is a traitor to the United states, a guy who committed multiple acts of treason while in office, a guy who spent his entire 8 years empowering, defending and helping to spread radical Islam while kicking out the legs of the USA and our allies on every single level and ANYONE even remotely connected to him has absolutely ZERO business being in our government because you know they are going to do nothing else but work against the country which they see as their enemy. I have no idea why Trump is sitting on his rump over this.
Obviously you didn’t read the article you posted!
Too bad they don’t remove his head instead of his penis. They can always claim they couldn’t tell the difference.
Oh no no no....This my friend is Trump’s military now and he could force each and every officer to resign immediately. There is no excuse making for this
This outrage brought to you by hypocrites who rant about those who would “impose their morality on us”, yet who have no qualms about imposing their immorality on the rest of us by using our tax dollars to pay for their unholy agenda.
I could agree with that, but it’s not only the Obama butt boy generals. It’s the Obama butt boy judges too.
Even I was somewhat taken by surprise. I thought even the Obama butt boy generals would do what they are told. I guess I was expecting too much of them. I think Trump should lay down the law with some of these clowns. Tell them they can do it his way, or they have until sundown to get out of town.
Mattis? Is he going to say something dramatic soon?
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