Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
Tori Richards – Washington Examiner March 10, 2021
Taxpayers will now foot the bill for gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel and veterans, with some treatments costing upward of $200,000 under an executive order signed by President Biden.
Tucked inside Biden’s Jan. 25 transgender order, “Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform,” is a clause that repeals an Obama-era policy that prohibited federally funded reassignment surgery. This was followed up by memos from both Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough specifically stating that surgery is now an added benefit.
“This revised policy will also ensure all medically-necessary transition related care authorized by law is available to all Service members,” Austin wrote.
In a VA email to employees, McDonough echoed: “Perform an assessment of the necessary steps to eliminate the exclusion of ‘gender alteration’ (gender affirmation surgery) in the medical benefits package.”
Neither official stated how much the added benefit would cost but rather pledged to undertake an analysis.
Online charts by the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery show a plethora of elective surgeries for both men and women that add up to $100,000-$200,000. Although Biden stated in his order that the cost of treating transgender troops would have minimal impact on healthcare costs, that is not borne out by a 2019 USA Today investigation. The news analysis revealed that the Pentagon spent $8 million to treat just 1,500 transgender military officials, which included hormone treatments and some surgeries. It was not clear why the surgeries were allowed at that time.
A federal study revealed that more than 15,000 service members and 134,000 veterans identify as transgender.
Rep. Jim Banks, an Indiana Republican, is an Afghanistan veteran and sits on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. He supports transgender individuals serving in the military and said he served with people with diverse backgrounds. But he disputes that the public should pay for surgical intervention.
“This is radical and new territory for a presidential administration to force taxpayers to fund sexual reassignment surgeries for those in the military,” he told the Washington Examiner. “I’m compassionate toward those individuals who want to undergo an elective surgery of this nature, but taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook to pay for it. It’s constitutionally dubious that Congress hasn’t passed these measures, but the administration, in a radical way, is pushing through this agenda. I sit on the committee that should debate these issues.”
The order also violates the religious liberties of Catholics and Christians who oppose such a procedure, Banks said.
Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, who commanded U.S. Army forces in Iraq and now directs the Heritage Center for National Defense, says Biden’s order currently reads like anyone in a war zone can suddenly take leave to undergo reassignment surgery.
“I would like to think the Pentagon would come up with a procedure … It’s completely irrational to change your gender right in front of a conflict,” he said. “A lot of people [in the military] are outraged by this idea that you can just come in and get this [surgery] and be gone from your unit. Someone has to pick up the slack while you are gone.”
Biden has made transgender people a protected class because other recruits are not accepted if they have an existing medical condition that would require ongoing treatment, he said. Spoehr also predicted that many would join the military to receive free surgery.
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, blasted Biden’s “social experimentation” as a follow-up to former President Barack Obama’s 2016 inclusiveness mandate that he said created chaos with sensitivity trainings and bathroom retrofits.
what could be more important for a world leading army?
So not only are the US armed forces heavily stretched across the world, in wars for the jew; not only are the US forces hated across this world; not only is war very likely with Iran, Russia and China, but the jews are now giving taxpayer funded sex change operations for the armed forces.
Is it just me, or do you think that they’re trying to destroy the armed forces in the US?
And of course, guess who’ll be performing those transgender surgeries at $200k a pop? Yup, you guessed it, Mr Hook Nose.
So, let’s go back to the past? The slave trade was jewish. They ran the auctions, ran the ships and the crews. They also were the overwhelming number of people who bought slaves (80% of jews had slaves compared to 15% non jews). The jews controlled the textile industry (Levi jeans hello?) and all we ever hear about the slave trade is ‘Pickin’ cotton down south’. People are unable to click. Not only was the slave trade about making jews, incredible profits, but it was also about lighting the fuse to the time bomb that’s about to go off – race war. I mean, I wonder what’s going to happen, if you allow slaves citizenship in a country who enslaved them and then through your control of the msm, lie about the slave trade and continually blame whites for the slave trade the jew created and ran? Bit of a no brainer there eh?
The jew is making money on the deliberate demolition of the west and people can’t see this. They destroyed the armed forces by brining in women, then homosexuals. They brought emotion into this establishment and its destroyed it. I’m sure the enemies of the US are licking their lips. Just think of all those female (real) armed forces personnel, who’ll be captured in the near future and most certainly raped? It’s really not going to be that hard to get information out of a woman is it? She’ll spill her guts, the minute she sees a dildo with razor blades approaching her.
But again, as I’ve said many times in the past, the willful ignorance of people has led to the collapse of the west. They have only themselves to blame for not doing what was needed to be done – kicking out of the kike. They’ve been warned, throughout history and while the west continues plummeting deeper into the sewer, they still can’t see what’s going on and who’s behind it.
Survival of the fittest is the name of the game and sadly, there aren’t many fit people in the west anymore.
And what they going to do when they face cold steel???
Probably throw brushes and pots of makeup at the Mongol hoard…Hahaha.
It’s a Monty Python world hahaha…
I must have knocked my head and I’m dreaming all this crap.
In America Jewish greed even gets in the way of castrating the goyim and makes it very inefficient, so the goyim are quite lucky. I don’t think they charged as much to lobotomise you with an ice-pick at the eye socket a few decades ago.
The Spetnatz will laugh when they are facing the US military, full of trannies, lesbos, queers and perverts. All with the war fighting capabilities of a wet paper bag…………….
The US military can only prevail against the likes of Afghanistan and Iraq. If the US military goes head to head with either Russia or China, it will not be so funny for the Illuminati Satanists who rule America.
A strange state of affairs. A lot of America’s disadvantaged young people join the military to pay for their further education, and now the US military is appealing to trans-people on the promise of funding their sex-change operations. This could mean a big shift away from the woke generation enlisting. Many don’t like what their military are doing abroad; they know a college degree isn’t really worth the effort anymore; and not many will want dangerous postings serving beside hormonally-charged characters.
At first this policy may draw in trans people, but before long it will draw in mostly only trans people, and if the military degrades too much it might even put off career officers who might prefer the police force, the Coast Guard or numerous government agencies. Even Wall Street for the otherwise ambitious.
Like everything else in this world today,,, it’s a lie. One cannot change their sex…. period.
We live in a pretend world. Everybody says “listen to the science”. Well the science says no way Hosea.
It just another fantasy for the medical complex to squeeze mostly taxpayer money.