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The House of Representatives voted down a measure on Thursday that would have banned the coverage of transition-related health care for transgender troops.
Rep. Vicky Hartzler, a Republican from Missouri, had proposed the measure as an amendment to the defense authorization bill, arguing that taxpayers should not foot the bill for procedures such as gender reassignment surgery because that would divert the funds from more important priorities. "This is different from somebody going in and having a cold," she said during debate on the floor.
In the past, gender reassignment surgery has often been banned from coverage — by both private insurance and government programs — because it was viewed as experimental or cosmetic. While Hartzler argued that there is still a "lack of medical consensus on the effectiveness of gender transition treatments," organizations such as the American Medical Association have in the last decade released statements saying that research supports the effectiveness and "medical necessity" of treatments such as surgery for individuals with gender dysphoria. That is the official diagnosis for individuals who experience "a marked difference between the individual’s expressed/experienced gender and the gender others would assign him or her."
Medicare started covering gender reassignment surgery in 2014, after a decades-long ban, in response to a lawsuit filed by a transgender woman who was also a veteran. The Department of Health and Human Services board found that given advances in research and practice, the exclusion was "not reasonable" anymore.
originally posted by: watchitburn
I'm active duty military, and I don't know how I feel about it.
I've seen the military pay for women to get breast enlargement surgery, and I've seen it pay for guys to get liposuction. So I don't see how they could now deny trans people getting transition surgery.
I think they either have to cover all that kind of stuff or none of it. You can't have it both ways.
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
a reply to: seasonal
How embarrassing for the US military - to be electronically paraded through the streets as the global laughing-stock relating to all things 'war'.
Irrespective of the little details - the message is clear - the US military can no longer claim the high ground when it comes to possessing the worlds most ruthless Alpha males. This could be the decline of American military might.
and to the tards who are triggered by that, #-in deal with it - you cannot be transgender and Alpha at the same time so if the military does not want Alpha males in their ranks - they are doomed to eventual destruction.
This sort of slop is exactly what is causing the decline in American respect across the planet.
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
a reply to: seasonal
How embarrassing for the US military - to be electronically paraded through the streets as the global laughing-stock relating to all things 'war'.
Irrespective of the little details - the message is clear - the US military can no longer claim the high ground when it comes to possessing the worlds most ruthless Alpha males. This could be the decline of American military might.
and to the tards who are triggered by that, #-in deal with it - you cannot be transgender and Alpha at the same time so if the military does not want Alpha males in their ranks - they are doomed to eventual destruction.
This sort of slop is exactly what is causing the decline in American respect across the planet.
originally posted by: RainbowPhoenix
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
a reply to: seasonal
How embarrassing for the US military - to be electronically paraded through the streets as the global laughing-stock relating to all things 'war'.
Irrespective of the little details - the message is clear - the US military can no longer claim the high ground when it comes to possessing the worlds most ruthless Alpha males. This could be the decline of American military might.
and to the tards who are triggered by that, #-in deal with it - you cannot be transgender and Alpha at the same time so if the military does not want Alpha males in their ranks - they are doomed to eventual destruction.
This sort of slop is exactly what is causing the decline in American respect across the planet.
Yeah because .6% of the population is going to suddenly overwhelm the ranks of the most advanced military in the world and emasculate the whole of it overnight...OH NOEZ!!!
originally posted by: watchitburn
I'm active duty military, and I don't know how I feel about it.
I've seen the military pay for women to get breast enlargement surgery, and I've seen it pay for guys to get liposuction. So I don't see how they could now deny trans people getting transition surgery.
I think they either have to cover all that kind of stuff or none of it. You can't have it both ways.
originally posted by: testingtesting
a reply to: watchitburn
I think If those surgery's improve the mental state and moral of the serving person the better at their job they will be don't you?.
originally posted by: XStraw
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