© Greg Nash
Posted on 07/13/2017 2:54:44 PM PDT by jazusamo
The House voted Thursday against banning the Pentagon from providing transition-related medical care to transgender troops.
The body rejected the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on a 209-214 largely party line vote.
The amendment outraged Democrats, who called it ignorant, mean-spirited and denigrating, while Republicans argued the Pentagon should not be spending its money on such medical care.
Transgender troops currently in the military have been able to serve openly since last year. The policy also allows them to receive any treatment deemed medically necessary, including surgery and hormone therapy.
Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s (R-Mo.) amendment would have barred Pentagon funding from going to any transition-related medical care, except for mental health services.
Hartzler claimed the cost of surgeries alone could reach $1.3 billion over the next 10 years.
“This is about addressing [North] Korea, Russia, ISIS,” Hartzler said, holding up pictures of each. “We need every defense dollar to go to meeting those threats, not anything else, and we need to make sure our troops are ready and can be deployed.”
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) added the opposition to the amendment was “silly” and said people should “figure out if you’re a man or a woman before you join up.”
The RAND Corporation last year found all medical costs for transgender service members would be about $2.4 million and $8.4 million annually.
Democrats argued the true intent of the amendment was to discriminate against transgender troops, as not being able to receive medical care would effectively prevent transgender people from being able to serve in the military.
Even if the service members themselves aren’t transgender, immediate family members who are would not be able to get the care they need, making it untenable for them to serve in the military, Democrats said.
“Make no mistake, the effect and the intent of this unjust and mean-spirited amendment is to ban patriotic Americans from serving our country,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said. “It is designed to throw transgender service members out of the military.”
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, said the amendment was based on “ignorance of what transgender truly is.”
This is the second year in a row the NDAA has been caught up in LGBT issues. Last year, a provision was added in the House Armed Services Committee that Democrats contended would have allowed federal contractors to discriminate against LGBT people.
When Democrats could not successfully remove the provision when the bill came to the House floor, they largely voted against the NDAA. But the provision was eventually stripped out of the bill during House-Senate negotiations, leading to bipartisan final passage.
Bradley Manning, call your publicist.
“a 209-214 largely party line vote.”
Democrats still are in the majority, I see. /s
“Make no mistake, the effect and the intent of this unjust and mean-spirited amendment is to ban patriotic Americans from serving our country,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said.
It’s just useless. Why vote for these people?
The GOP is a joke. This is iust the 50th example.
Genital mutilation and a lifetime supply of steroids for these mentally disordered deviants has nothing whatsoever to do with medical care.
[medical care]
This is NOT “medical care”.
Did 1/2 of the country go stupid when Obama got in?
WAIT - don’t answer that.....
Obama and the Democrats are destroying the country faster than the Communists ever dreamed possible. They just had to join forces.
It’s impossible to be this stupid. If every Republican lost the next election I wouldn’t care at all. What difference at this point does it make?
More like ∞∞ example.
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If there were snow on the ground and you stepped outside,
COULD YOU WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE SNOW?
If you are capable of performing this intricate feat, UNIQUE TO MALES, or even come close,
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THANK YOU!
(This message provided by the millions of American citizens who are FED UP with insane distractions of this sort by renegade and out-of-control, bureaucrats, leftists and courts, the obvious goal of which is the total and absolute destruction of any remaining common sense standards en-route to a totalitarian command tyranny.)
GOP Gutless Old Patriarchs.
But, but, but, we have to vote for the republicans because they're the lesser of two evils, and if we don't all kinds of crazy things will happen like 0care, and transgenders in the military, and amnesty, and........and if only they controlled the congress, and if only we would vote in a republican president.......
I don't think there's more than two congressmen or senators worth a damn. EF these F'n socialist illegal loving fags. EF 'em all to hell.
I want to know names
RINO’s ride again.
Senate Republicans demanded it be removed in negotiations?
Amash, Bergman, Coffman, Comstock, Cook, Costello (PA), Curbelo (FL), Denham,
Dent, Faso, Fitzpatrick, Issa, Katko, Knight, Lance, LoBiondo, MacArthur, Mast, Reed,
Reichert, Ros-Lehtinen, Shuster, Stefanik, Tenney
Trump can tell DoD not to spend that money. Very simple. But he has done nothing to roll back the hard core left wing experiments in the military so far.
Our congressman is Ryan Costello (R-06), who voted to defeat this bill.
I maintain an e-mail list of neighbors and church leadership, all of who have now been made aware of how this man voted.
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