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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog
What would these huge medical costs be? - Would anyone expect the military to pay for the op? - I doubt that...
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Two-dozen House Republicans broke with their pro-defense brethren Thursday and helped Democrats kill an amendment that would have barred the military from funding transgender sex reassignment surgeries and hormone therapies.
The amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which sets out policies on America?s $696 billion military budget, failed 214-209, with all Democrats and 24 Republicans opposing.
It means the military health care system will be called on to provide such surgeries as routine treatments for the first time, unless the Trump administration changes Obama-era policies that allow transgender troops to remain on duty.
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Pentagon to keep paying for sex-change surgeries - Washington Times
The Military Times reports there are about 250 people in transition or approved to be in the Pentagon system now.
So it looks like they were getting their transformations paid for while in the military.