Posted on 03/01/2019 10:44:53 PM PST by robowombat
Report: 1,500 transgender troops cost taxpayers almost $8 million since 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – As the debate rages over President Donald Trump’s proposed ban on gender-confused soldiers in the U.S. Armed Forces, a new report is shining a light on the costs of the controversy.
USA Today reports that since July 1, 2016, a total of 1,524 soldiers have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Between psychotherapy visits, hormone prescriptions, and surgical procedures such as breast reductions or augmentations and “male reproductive” procedures, the treatment totaled $7,943,906.75.
The Pentagon’s overall healthcare budget is $50 billion a year for a total of 2.1 million service members. Transgender troops represent 0.7 percent of the total force. While the sum is a small percentage of the budget, it offers an idea of how costs could increase with further recruitment of the gender-confused and cultural normalization of gender fluidity, and fiscal hawks argue that every bit of unnecessary or ill-advised spending contributes to the country’s overall fiscal woes.
On Wednesday, the House Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee heard testimony for and against the Trump administration policy, which is currently working its way through the courts. It would disqualify “transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria,” specifically those who “may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery,” except in “certain limited circumstances.”
“Good leaders can take a team and make it work,” argued Lt. Cmdr. Blake Dremann, president of the transgender military group SPARTA, the homosexual paper the Washington Blade reports. “Great leaders mold their teams to exceed expectations because it doesn’t matter if you’re female or LGBT. What matters is that each member is capable and focused on the mission.”
Democrats such as Rep. Jackie Speier attacked the ban as “maliciously jeopardizing your careers and trivializing your sacrifice,” USA Today adds. But Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency, testified that the military has observed transgenderism-related issues that groups such as the American Medical Association fail to recognize, such as higher numbers of visits to mental health professionals and more frequent suicidal thoughts.
The ban was developed after “extensive study by senior uniformed and civilian leaders, including combat veterans,” according to the White House and as detailed in a memo from former Defense Secretary James Mattis. The American Psychiatric Association still classifies gender dysphoria as a mental disorder, as did the World Health Organization until last summer.
“A psychological disorder bans you from any type of military service,” argued former Army drill instructor John Burk, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, in a 2017 viral video. “Guess what? Color blindness disqualifies you from the military [...] Are we ‘discriminatory’ towards color-blind people?”
Last month, a poll conducted by Smithsonian, Stars and Stripes, and the Schar School at George Mason University found that just 39 percent of current and former service members support transgender military service.
Another lying pol. Much of the data in this article greatly understates the problem
No good reason to allow the mentally ill into the military.
Should I ask what a male reproductive procedure is?
Maybe I really don’t want to know.
Celebrate or Else!
#StunningAndBrave
That May very well be true but to focus on finances misses the point. Consider how little food rodents actually consume; yet, in the process of meeting their needs, they destroy resources out of all proportion to what they use.
In the pursuit of their obsessions, the LGBT crowd and their allies represent an existential threat to the nation. The real problem is moral, not fiscal.
So.... the Defense Department is paying for all this crap????
No wonder the trannies are signing up,
Re the title in parenthesis (far to low $ amount. Does the caption writer mean they are “Lowballing” the number of trannies, esp. males? /sarc
My reading of this is that Obama invited mentally ill freaks to join our military as a scam to divert taxpayer dollars from defending America to subverting our values. It’s time for those with serious mental illness (and post-op with serious self-inflicted mutilations) to leave the armed forces. The uniformed services are supposed to be combat ready, not a vehicle providing welfare support for perverts.
Think of the damage done by Bradley (Chelsea) Manning.
I hardly know what that means but I am sure guns should not be allowed near anyone confused....instead of Nancy Pelosi making up Bible quotes, someone, all of us had better bring the Lord back into our homes and schools, He is sorely needed.
OMG!! Our once fine military is about GONE!
Amen!! We have kicked God, and especially His Son, Jesus, out of America and THAT is why we are in such a mess.
The time they are required to serve almost equals the exact time the mental health part, surgical part and recovery part with maybe a few months to go. I have seen some interviewed that say they are only signing up to get the surgery for free.
I’m confused. Are they having addadicktome’s or cutapeckerofftomy’s.
Just another reason for an armed revolt to save this country. This country as defined by our history and Constitution cannot survive as we know it for too much longer.
“Transgenders” have made homosexuals look normal.
Actually, I think transgender troops need to prove their worth. If they can do that, then they deserve to stay in the service. A good test would be to put all of them in the same unit, well trained, well equipped, and have them charge into some die hard islamic country. Possibly parachuting them in the middle of Iran would work, using virtual parachutes.
Those that survive get to stay in with full honors.
Indeed just more useless overhead.
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