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Here's How Much the Pentagon Has Spent So Far to Treat Transgender Troops
military.com ^ | June 18, 2021 | Patricia Kime

Posted on 06/18/2021 2:39:10 PM PDT by PROCON

The Pentagon has spent $15 million in the past five years to treat 1,892 transgender troops, including $11.5 million for psychotherapy and $3.1 million for surgeries, according to Defense Department data provided to Military.com

Of the 243 gender reassignment surgeries performed on military personnel since 2016, 50 took place between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2017, and 193 occurred from Jan. 1, 2018 to Dec. 31, 2019 -- the two years after President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he would bar transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military.

According to the Defense Health Agency, the surgeries were performed in military health facilities and included removal of breasts or testicles, hysterectomies and labiaplasty -- creation of or reshaping the flesh around a vagina.

The total number of transgender persons serving in the armed forces across all three components -- active-duty, Reserve and National Guard -- is not known as not all likely have sought treatment.

But as of May, 1,892 military personnel have been diagnosed and treated for gender dysphoria, including 726 Army soldiers, 576 Navy sailors, 449 Air Force airmen and 141 Marines, according to DHA spokesman Peter Graves.

(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: military; transgender
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I'm not sure this country will ever recover from this perverted madness.
1 posted on 06/18/2021 2:39:10 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Treat?

Electroshock therapy?


2 posted on 06/18/2021 2:41:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: PROCON

Hey Flag Officers:
You could have saved all that money had you only employed the character screening methods you were using when I signed up in 1967!

DUHHHH


3 posted on 06/18/2021 2:44:52 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: PROCON

“$11.5 million for psychotherapy”

Huh? That’s a good candidate to fit the job?


4 posted on 06/18/2021 2:46:21 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: PROCON

That’s at least two Abrams tanks or ammo or MREs or gas or money to treat soldiers who’ve actually been wounded in battle. Where’s Patton when we need him?


5 posted on 06/18/2021 2:46:34 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: PROCON

This makes me sick to my stomach.

Starting to wonder what our Military is really defending.


6 posted on 06/18/2021 2:47:28 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: PROCON
I'm not sure this country will ever recover from this perverted madness.

Life in America is easy, soft and narcissistic. Our founding credo of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" has been taken to an absurd extreme. The Left uses the world's reserve currency to spend on political stupidity and social engineering. A hot war with 10,000 dead in the first month will end all gay/transgender nonsense immediately, at least in the military.

7 posted on 06/18/2021 2:48:43 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Safrguns
Usury, Sodomy, Abortion, and grooming children for being sexually abused by perverts.

If you object to that, you are a nazi terrorist.

8 posted on 06/18/2021 2:50:45 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: PROCON

They’re throwing all this money away on procedures that won’t help (and actually make things worse) on people that are mentally and physically unfit to serve. They are going to either kill themselves or each other. They should be removed from the military.


9 posted on 06/18/2021 2:50:59 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: PROCON

Once you trans you ate no longer combat ready as you are taking meds to support your decision at taxpayer expense


10 posted on 06/18/2021 2:51:08 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: PGR88

For many the pursuit of happiness exists no higher than the crotch.


11 posted on 06/18/2021 2:51:21 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: PROCON

Transgender people suffer from a long recognized mental illness called body dysmorphia. It cannot be cured by hormones, plastic surgery or changing clothing.


12 posted on 06/18/2021 2:58:10 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: PROCON

Should have been Discharged


13 posted on 06/18/2021 3:06:45 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: PROCON

Evil, evil and more evil.


14 posted on 06/18/2021 3:08:18 PM PDT by mulligan (an En bbnnEeThe to)
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To: pnut22

Transgender people suffer from a long recognized mental illness called body dysmorphia. It cannot be cured by hormones, plastic surgery or changing clothing.


Will depleted uranium ‘pills’ work?


15 posted on 06/18/2021 3:09:12 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PROCON

The military was taken down a long time ago by Clinton, who allowed sexual deviants to serve at all, just “in secret.”

Everything since then has been the eventual fallout.


16 posted on 06/18/2021 3:12:45 PM PDT by fwdude (“I do think at a certain point you've paid enough taxes.” — Not Obama)
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To: Trillian

The Psychologist will determine those that transition are disabled and eligible for military benefits for life.


17 posted on 06/18/2021 3:17:40 PM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: PIF

Your theory is probably tested more than Covid “Vaccine” has been.


18 posted on 06/18/2021 3:21:53 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: PROCON

Fox ( Greg Gutfeld) has invited transgender psycho Bruce Jenner on his show next week


19 posted on 06/18/2021 3:32:13 PM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: butlerweave

Corporal Klinger would be out of luck in today’s world (although he never would have joined the volunteer Army in the first place).


20 posted on 06/18/2021 3:34:04 PM PDT by Cecily
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