4MCUD Wrote:
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> Reminder: This is all been discussed with the
> military with actual sourced facts:
>
>
The military spends five times as much on
> Viagra as it would on transgender troops’
> medical care
>
> 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
> servicemembers' 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 study didn't include estimates of these costs
> for reservists, because of their “highly limited
> military health care eligibility.” It also
> didn't include estimates for retirees or military
> family members, because many of those individuals
> may also have “limited eligibility” for care
> via military treatment facilities.
>
>
> “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.
>
>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/0
> 7/26/the-military-spends-five-times-as-much-on-via
> gra-as-it-would-on-transgender-troops-medical-care
> /?utm_term=.b00dc641d136
>
> Don't be such chickenshits about it when health
> care costs for boner pills is 10 times more.
Erections are normal biological functions, and if members of the military have difficulty getting them, either because of injury or disease, it is wholly appropriate to treat what is rightly considered a medical malady. On the other hand, a man cutting off his penis so he can pretend (emphasis on "pretend" - they are still men, regardless of what they call or do to themselves) to be a woman is not normal in any biological sense. Your analogy is specious at best.