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:
- California Rep. Paul Cook
- California Rep. Jeff Denham
- California Rep. Steve Knight
- California Rep. Darrell Issa
- Colorado Rep Mike Coffman
- Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo
- Florida Rep. Lena Ros-Lehtinen
- Florida Rep. Brian Mast
- Michigan Rep. Justin Amash
- Michigan Rep. Jack Bergman
- New Jersey Rep. Leonard Lance
- New Jersey Rep. Frank Lobiondo
- New Jersey Rep. Tom MacArthur
- New York Rep. John Faso
- New York Rep. Elise Stefanik
- New York Rep. Tom Reed
- New York Rep. John Katko
- New York Rep. Claudia Tenney
- Pennsylvania Rep. Ryan Costello
- Pennsylvania Rep. Charles Dent
- Pennsylvania Rep. Bill Shuster
- Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick
- Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock
- Washington Rep. David Reichert
“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.
Poster Comment:
Michigan Rep. Jack Bergman
This one surprises me. Bergman is a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
#1: Pinguinite To: Deckard (#0)
For a recruit doing a single 3 year tour, that equates to about 23% of the entire service time after basic and advanced training.
With this incentive, people wanting transgender operations would be encouraged to join the military for the sole purpose of getting the operation. This will attract recruits who otherwise wouldn't bother joining.
Pinguinite posted on 2017-07-15 12:43:39 Reply Private Reply
#2: A K A Stone To: Pinguinite, tooconservative (#1)
A K A Stone posted on 2017-07-15 12:46:01 Reply Private Reply
#3: Tooconservative To: Deckard (#0)
This is sexual mutilation, taxpayer-funded.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-07-15 12:46:02 Reply Private Reply
#4: Deckard To: A K A Stone (#2)
Yeah - I'm kinda having second thoughts about this guy.
Deckard posted on 2017-07-15 16:02:53 Reply Private Reply
#5: rlk To: Deckard (#0)
Today, he would be booed of the stage by a massive group of confused people who hav ee been talked into believing your sex should be a matter of government aided choice. This nation has gone nuts and its nutcases are all on the warpath to get their way.
rlk posted on 2017-07-15 16:22:31 Reply Private Reply
#6: Stoner To: Deckard (#0)
24 candidates to be used as windchimes
Stoner posted on 2017-07-15 17:00:49 Reply Private Reply
#7: sneakypete To: Deckard (#0)
Think maybe he woke up one day to discover a bag of cash on his doorstep?
Or maybe a transsexual grandchild?
There is one general rule that usually applies to these things,and it states "If they are from the northeast,the north,or the left coast,they ain't really Republicans."
sneakypete posted on 2017-07-15 17:53:31 Reply Private Reply
#8: sneakypete To: Pinguinite (#1)
You can bet money on it.
You can also bet money on them suing their uniformed superiors and the US Military for sexual harassment and sexual discrimination on their way out the door to have a nice,comfortable "pillow" to land on while they are waiting to write their book and have their movie filmed.
sneakypete posted on 2017-07-15 17:56:50 Reply Private Reply
#9: Anthem To: A K A Stone, Deckard (#2)
He's out. I sent him a note withdrawing my support after he voted yea on the RepObama healthcare bill.
Anthem posted on 2017-07-15 23:40:58 Reply Private Reply
#10: Hondo68 To: Anthem, A K A Stone, Deckard (#9)
Yes, Amash is on my shit list too. He's a fake libertarian, like Gary Johnson.
Stone was right about him.
Hondo68 posted on 2017-07-16 00:40:23 Reply Private Reply
#11: jeremiad To: Pinguinite (#1)
It was an excellent point, of which I had not thought of before.
jeremiad posted on 2017-07-16 14:08:39 Reply Private Reply