House to Consider Ban on Transgender Surgery for US Troops

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

JUL 13 2017, 5:39 PM ET
by ASSOCIATED PRESS




A Republican proposal to bar the Pentagon from paying for gender transition surgeries drew fierce opposition Thursday from Democrats who called it mean-spirited and discriminatory.

Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., described the prohibition as a bid to ensure tax dollars are spent wisely. She said her amendment to a sweeping defense policy bill would end the Obama-era practice of requiring the armed forces to fund medical procedures that even most private insurance plans don't cover and would cost more than $1 billion over the next 10 years.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Republicans should be ashamed. "This cowardly Republican amendment targeting transgender men and women in uniform effectively bans these patriotic Americans from serving their country," the California Democrat said.

The defense policy bill would authorize $696 billion for managing the nation's vast military enterprise in 2018, nearly $30 billion more for core Pentagon operations than President Donald Trump requested.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/house-consider-ban-transgender-surgery-us-troops-n782776

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Makes sense, republicans hate anybody who isnt exactly like them.

[Moostache]

2. ANOTHER Missouri disgrace...

Hey Vicky? FUCK YOU!

Fuck your bullshit pseudo-concern for "spending tax payer dollars wisely" too. In fact, FUCK YOU WITH YOUR BULLSHIT PSEUDO-CONCERNS!!!

If you gave a flying fuck all about tax payers, then you would be DEMANDING a draw down of the military, a WITHDRAWAL from Empire USA, a closing of the bases and outposts, a pull-back from wars of choice and idiocy and a MASSIVE reinvestment of all that money into infrastructure and energy modernization, science research and medical care for the population that produces those tax dollars. Your actions mark you as the worst kind of hypocrite and I will not let you forget it when you rotate back here to good old East Kansas...

FUCK YOU, FUCK YOUR PARTY, and GO DIE SOMEWHERE THAT YOUR BODY WILL BE CONSUMED BY WILD ANIMALS.

[Lordquinton]

3. They really think that they will spend $1 billion dollars on these procedures?

They hire the same firm as California did for cost predictions?

[get the red out]

4. Not about the money

All about bigotry.

[Blue_Tires]

5. IT LOST 214-209

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