Trump announces policy banning transgender military service

[Anonymous]

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I don't know your friends of course, and I would completely respect them as human beings. But to say that they don't "choose" to behave in this manner is absurd.

I think you are right. Let's follow Mike Pence's lead and provide electro-shock therapy to see if we can get their minds right.

No one is saying they can't be transgendered. We are saying the taxpayers should not pay for the surgeries.

That isn't what the President is proposing. He is willfully removing thousands of active patriots (something he never did) from service. It has nothing to do with surgeries and everything to do with hate and fear-mongering.

You ok with a modification, i.e. let transgenders serve but no surgery paid for by the taxpayer?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I don't know your friends of course, and I would completely respect them as human beings. But to say that they don't "choose" to behave in this manner is absurd.

I think you are right. Let's follow Mike Pence's lead and provide electro-shock therapy to see if we can get their minds right.

No one is saying they can't be transgendered. We are saying the taxpayers should not pay for the surgeries.

I hope you never have a child that faces the question of their identity. You seem rather heartless.

I would not ask the taxpayer to take on the costs and the crisis.

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It says nothing about having to pay for transgender surgery. How about we exclude that from military benefits and welcome transgender people with open arms?

Sure. While we are at it, let's exclude neo-natal care, cancer treatment, coronary care and PTSD.

Are you seriously saying that cancer and bottom surgery are equivalent?

This is the real problem - liberals don't understand the concept of what's choice and what's not.

That's really interesting. Did you know the military spends 10x as much money on Viagra through benefits than it does on anything related to transgender members?

So let's stop viagra.

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Anonymous wrote:Approximately 250 Transgenders are in the Military of hundreds of thousands in a country of 340 million. Why is this even a story... meh!

I suspect a lot of people were enlisting in the hopes of having DOD pay for the transition. There have always been people who enlisted for medical care. Years ago, I knew someone who enlisted because his wife had cancer. Very sad. She was young. He did stay in after she passed and was an asset to the service. I also have known of others who did this. The data would be difficult to find, but I personally know of several who stayed in because of medical issues in their families.

Do you also suspect the sun revolves around the earth?

Ah, more proof liberals are all horse and no cattle.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It says nothing about having to pay for transgender surgery. How about we exclude that from military benefits and welcome transgender people with open arms?

Sure. While we are at it, let's exclude neo-natal care, cancer treatment, coronary care and PTSD.

Are you seriously saying that cancer and bottom surgery are equivalent?

This is the real problem - liberals don't understand the concept of what's choice and what's not.

That's really interesting. Did you know the military spends 10x as much money on Viagra through benefits than it does on anything related to transgender members?

So let's stop viagra.

While we're at it, let's exclude fertility treatments and testing, including IVF, as a military benefit. No one is going to die without these treatments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I don't know your friends of course, and I would completely respect them as human beings. But to say that they don't "choose" to behave in this manner is absurd.

I think you are right. Let's follow Mike Pence's lead and provide electro-shock therapy to see if we can get their minds right.

No one is saying they can't be transgendered. We are saying the taxpayers should not pay for the surgeries.

That isn't what the President is proposing. He is willfully removing thousands of active patriots (something he never did) from service. It has nothing to do with surgeries and everything to do with hate and fear-mongering.

Thousands?? So now there are thousands of transgendered persons in the military. Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I don't know your friends of course, and I would completely respect them as human beings. But to say that they don't "choose" to behave in this manner is absurd.

I think you are right. Let's follow Mike Pence's lead and provide electro-shock therapy to see if we can get their minds right.

No one is saying they can't be transgendered. We are saying the taxpayers should not pay for the surgeries.

That isn't what the President is proposing. He is willfully removing thousands of active patriots (something he never did) from service. It has nothing to do with surgeries and everything to do with hate and fear-mongering.

You ok with a modification, i.e. let transgenders serve but no surgery paid for by the taxpayer?

Ok, so why stop there? Suspend military benefits that include any elective surgery (including cosmetic and IVF) and any elective medications like Viagra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I don't know your friends of course, and I would completely respect them as human beings. But to say that they don't "choose" to behave in this manner is absurd.

I think you are right. Let's follow Mike Pence's lead and provide electro-shock therapy to see if we can get their minds right.

No one is saying they can't be transgendered. We are saying the taxpayers should not pay for the surgeries.

That isn't what the President is proposing. He is willfully removing thousands of active patriots (something he never did) from service. It has nothing to do with surgeries and everything to do with hate and fear-mongering.

Thousands?? So now there are thousands of transgendered persons in the military. Lol

2014 https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/military-related/us-transgender-military-service/

[Anonymous]

Thousands of troops currently serving in the military are transgender, and some estimates place the number as high as 11,000 in the reserves and active duty military, according to a Rand Corp. study commissioned by the Defense Department.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/26/trump-announces-ban-on-transgender-people-in-u-s-military/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_transgender-945am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.23cab479c90d

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It says nothing about having to pay for transgender surgery. How about we exclude that from military benefits and welcome transgender people with open arms?

Sure. While we are at it, let's exclude neo-natal care, cancer treatment, coronary care and PTSD.

Are you seriously saying that cancer and bottom surgery are equivalent?

This is the real problem - liberals don't understand the concept of what's choice and what's not.

That's really interesting. Did you know the military spends 10x as much money on Viagra through benefits than it does on anything related to transgender members?

So let's stop viagra.

While we're at it, let's exclude fertility treatments and testing, including IVF, as a military benefit. No one is going to die without these treatments.

IVF is already excluded. The military will pay for some drugs like clomid, and in its OB residency programs offers reduced-price IUI and IVF to a limited number of patients each year. They still pay thousands out of pocket for the drugs involved, because military insurance will not cover it.

[Anonymous]

I think it would be fine for the military to pay for gender reassignment surgery because I can't imagine this is a huge expense compared to the overall budget. At the same time, I'm fine if the military says it won't pay for this surgery.

I do think it should pay for hormone treatments. I have no idea how compatible a daily pill is with deployment to a war zone, but I do know a lot of service members are taking a lot of maintenance drugs for all sorts of conditions and serving just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it would be fine for the military to pay for gender reassignment surgery because I can't imagine this is a huge expense compared to the overall budget. At the same time, I'm fine if the military says it won't pay for this surgery.

I do think it should pay for hormone treatments. I have no idea how compatible a daily pill is with deployment to a war zone, but I do know a lot of service members are taking a lot of maintenance drugs for all sorts of conditions and serving just fine.

We can have the debate about how the government should handle medical issues relating to transgender service members. It can even be a robust debate if that's what folks want.

That is all separate and apart from Trump's unrelated decision today. Which was just an impetuous, unsurprising backtrack on his promise to stand with this country's LGBTQ community, and a craven attempt to get some more favor from that small minority of people who are sticking with him BECAUSE he is so backwards and not despite. He is a terrible leader, a worthless politician, and a turd of a human being.

[Anonymous]

It's gonna cost way, way more for all the lawsuits this is going to engender than it would to pay for everyone's surgery and their IVF.

[Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/jrsalzman

There's a twitter thread here from an Iraqi vet--amputee. Worth reading. Explains the issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I don't know your friends of course, and I would completely respect them as human beings. But to say that they don't "choose" to behave in this manner is absurd.

I think you are right. Let's follow Mike Pence's lead and provide electro-shock therapy to see if we can get their minds right.

No one is saying they can't be transgendered. We are saying the taxpayers should not pay for the surgeries.

That isn't what the President is proposing. He is willfully removing thousands of active patriots (something he never did) from service. It has nothing to do with surgeries and everything to do with hate and fear-mongering.

You ok with a modification, i.e. let transgenders serve but no surgery paid for by the taxpayer?

I would be except then you get into the barracks bathroom shower issue. The military has things on its plate, like fighting a war on many fronts, that are simply more important than this, for now.