No.4213
Kek, America is finished
>The Pentagon has spent $15 million in the past five years to treat 1,892 transgender troops, including $11.5 million for psychotherapy and $3.1 million for surgeries, according to Defense Department data provided to Military.com
>Of the 243 gender reassignment surgeries performed on military personnel since 2016, 50 took place between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2017, and 193 occurred from Jan. 1, 2018 to Dec. 31, 2019 – the two years after President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he would bar transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military.
>According to the Defense Health Agency, the surgeries were performed in military health facilities and included removal of breasts or testicles, hysterectomies and labiaplasty – creation of or reshaping the flesh around a vagina.
>The total number of transgender persons serving in the armed forces across all three components – active-duty, Reserve and National Guard – is not known as not all likely have sought treatment.
>But as of May, 1,892 military personnel have been diagnosed and treated for gender dysphoria, including 726 Army soldiers, 576 Navy sailors, 449 Air Force airmen and 141 Marines, according to DHA spokesman Peter Graves.