Barack Obama will go down in history as one of the worst, if not the worst president in U.S. history.
His “leadership” left the world in chaos, our economy in shambles, national debt approaching $20 trillion, and our nation divided as never before in a profound crisis of identity and confidence. And as our culture moves from dysfunctional to bizarre, one of the hot button issues Obama left behind is transgenders in the military, and forcing taxpayers to underwrite the cost of elective transgender surgery for military members.
Donald Trump was elected president on the hope that he would reorient national priorities to actually serve our nation. One such action he took in August was to end military payments for elective transgender surgery and to bar transgenders from enlisting in the military. He suspended recruitment of transgender people, ordered the Defense Department to develop policies regarding those transgender service members already on duty, and only pay for transgender surgeries that were in progress.
The cost of transgender surgery can exceed $100,000. Estimates of the number of transgenders in the military range from a low of 1,320 to as high as 12,800. If all individuals identifying as “transgender” elected the surgery, it could cost the military between $132 million and $1.3 billion. It is claimed that only a small percentage will actually undergo the surgery, but doctors ironically claim that it is medically necessary. Either way, with taxpayers underwriting the cost, many more will likely take advantage of it.
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People who are new to this site may feel that there is an issue with LGBT groups. I suppose that gender reassignment surgery may be a new and difficult procedure for surgeons and so it is expensive. But I and other straight men have had expensive procedures paid for by the military. If you are opposed to collectivism you would not hope to impose restrictions on them that you would not want on yourself “okay yes we don’t consider gender reassignment a necessary expense” I am a firm believer in all of the other issues you have here but please… Read more »