LF: These Are The 24 Republicans Who Think The Pentagon Should Pay For Transgender Surgeries

Title: These Are The 24 Republicans Who Think The Pentagon Should Pay For Transgender Surgeries
Source: Daily Caller
URL Source: http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/14/t ... pay-for-transgender-surgeries/
Published: Jul 14, 2017
Author: Henry Rodgers
Post Date: 2017-07-15 12:28:58 by Deckard
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Views: 2685
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The House of Representatives voted down a Republican proposal to ban the Pentagon from paying for gender-transition surgeries after 24 GOP congressmen crossed party lines to join the Democratic side.

Republican Missouri Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s proposal to restrict funding for transgender members of the military was shut down in a close 209-214 vote on the the House floor Thursday after 24 GOP members sided with Democrats. Former President Barack Obama initiated the social policy changes that the Pentagon enacted in 2015.

“The Obama transgender policy, which was implemented without input from members of Congress, is ill-conceived and contrary to our goals of increasing troop readiness and investing defense dollars into addressing budget shortfalls of the past,” Hartzler said in a statement. “By recruiting and allowing transgender individuals to serve in our military we are subjecting taxpayers to high medical costs including up to $130,000 per transition surgery, lifetime hormone treatments, and additional surgeries to address the high percentage of individuals who experience complications.”

These are the 24 Republicans who voted against the legislation that would have removed funding for transgender military members’ medical costs:

“The deployability of individuals going through the sex transition process is highly problematic, requiring 210 to 238 work days where a soldier is non-deployable after surgery,” Hartzler said. “This recovery time equates to 1.4 million manpower days where transgender personnel cannot deploy and fight our nation’s wars, therefore relying on an already stressed force to pick up the burden. It makes no sense to purposely recruit individuals who cannot serve.”

Hartzler’s efforts to force a vote on the amendment were thwarted by her own party.

This one surprises me. Bergman is a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.

They're creating a constitutional right to cosmetic surgery to excise healthy organs.