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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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To: PROCON

This was going on during the Trump presidency?


21 posted on 06/18/2021 3:52:06 PM PDT by eeriegeno (A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State....)
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To: PROCON

DoD budgets are built two to three years in advance. Once money is enacted, it can’t be used for a different purpose without congressional approval. So this would have started under Obama.


22 posted on 06/18/2021 3:56:33 PM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: fwdude

Don’t ask don’t tell turned into
I’m gay you’ll pay.


23 posted on 06/18/2021 4:30:33 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Not just character. I remember being made to duck-walk in the physical. They were looking to weed out people that were going to end up needing surgery, and people that might be joining to get free surgery. Now, they recruit them.


24 posted on 06/18/2021 4:41:13 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Safrguns

We are producing the finest military Sodom could want.

Complete with testicles removal.


25 posted on 06/18/2021 5:14:34 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: gundog

And all this time I thought they were just after a little sadistic humor. hahaha


26 posted on 06/18/2021 5:38:11 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: PROCON

If they need psychotherapy as the consequence of elective surgery, imagine what it will take to straighten them out when they have to wipe the brain matter off their face from the person they’ve just shot.


27 posted on 06/18/2021 6:02:26 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: PROCON

and when these individuals realize they’re not the other sex after all, they’ll sue the VA for full disability, since the surgery was done on-base, and we’ll pay for their lifestyles the rest of our taxpaying lives.


28 posted on 06/18/2021 8:20:57 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

Surgery done on base? They’ve got military physicians who can build lady parts?


29 posted on 06/19/2021 5:10:27 AM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ...

Ping.


30 posted on 06/19/2021 5:14:57 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Fascists never think they’re the fascists.)
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To: PGR88

“A hot war with 10,000 dead in the first month will end all gay/transgender nonsense immediately, at least in the military.”

I imagine a lot of them would desert or in some other way become “combat ineffective.”


31 posted on 06/19/2021 5:22:48 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: PROCON

$15 million could fund a lot of training in the field, sayeth the Old S-3!


32 posted on 06/19/2021 6:53:11 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (Where are all the Biden voters, proudly praising his accomplishments?)
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To: PROCON

This number does NOT include the cost of sending other soldiers into war zones as ‘trans’ have to be close to their doctors for two years.

This means everything they’re paid should be included in the costs... Basically they’re patients... ask a nursing home how much they charge a month... that would be closer to the true number.


33 posted on 06/19/2021 8:30:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (Rape isn't penis violence. Arson isn't fire violence. Murder isn't gun violence. CriminalsRviolence )
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To: PGR88

“life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”

It was originally supposed to be “life, liberty and property”, but Thomas Jefferson changed it.

Now you cannot own Property unless you pay Taxes on it.
We are all Renters, not true Landowners.


34 posted on 06/19/2021 8:38:59 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: PROCON

What a ridiculous thing for a military to be doing


35 posted on 06/19/2021 10:30:45 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: PROCON; All

Vets can try and change their sex but cannot get their teeth fixed


36 posted on 06/19/2021 11:00:24 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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