Washington Post - "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail,” the president wrote.
While Trump didn't offer any numbers to support this claim, a Defense Department-commissioned study published last year by the Rand Corp. provides exhaustive estimates of transgender service members' potential medical costs.
Considering the prevalence of transgender servicemembers among the active duty military and the typical health-care costs for gender-transition-related medical treatment, the Rand study estimated that these treatments would cost the military between $2.4 million and $8.4 million annually.
“The implication is that even in the most extreme scenario that we were able to identify … we expect only a 0.13-percent ($8.4 million out of $6.2 billion) increase in health care spending,” Rand's authors concluded.
By contrast, total military spending on erectile dysfunction medicines amounts to $84 million annually, according to an analysis by the Military Times — 10 times the cost of annual transition-related medical care for active duty transgender servicemembers.
The military spends $41.6 million annually on Viagra alone, according to the Military Times analysis — roughly five times the estimated spending on transition-related medical care for transgender troops.
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Why would a transgender, a woman, or a man want to be in the military, where their job would consist of killing people and putting their own lives in danger in order to further enrich already rich capitalists?
Warfare is government-promoted insanity, that should have ended around the time the cave men quit clubbing each other over the head with sticks, stones and bones.
It is time to start thinking about universal disarmament, a civilized world, real democracy and socialism.
Would have enjoyed reading this article, but why post the LINK if people will be required to pay to read the article.
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