When he took office, President Biden ended the longstanding ban on people who identify as transgender serving in the military. Since then, the Biden Administration has granted more and more special benefits to people who identify as transgender, and it celebrated a left-wing trans activist during Pride Month.
People can now effectively avoid combat by identifying as transgender. The Dossier has obtained an internal Department of Defense (DOD) memo about the “care of service members who identify as transgender.” As it notes, “The 34 page memo details the enormous perks granted to service members who identify as transgender.”
As The Dossier notes,
Here are some of the perks transgender service members get:
- Taxpayer funded “care” for transgender service members includes:
- speech/voice therapy
- cross-sex hormones,
- laser hair removal,
- voice feminization surgery,
- facialcontouring,
- body contouring,
- breast/chest surgery (“upper surgery”)
- genital mutilation surgery (“lower surgery”).
- Psychological counseling
- Service members who identify as transgender may receive a waiver for grooming and uniform standards.
- Service members who identify as transgender may receive an indefinite waiver for physical fitness standards. This waiver often becomes a de facto permanent situation, and the transgender identifying service member just has to renew the exemption request every six months.
- Service members who identify as transgender will be considered “non-deployable” for up to 300 days while taking hormones for their “transition” period. Again, given that these hormones are often required for life, this may render the transgender identifying service member as permanently unable to deploy.
These perks are very expensive to taxpayers. The Washington Examiner reported that “taxpayers will now foot the bill for gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel and veterans, with some treatments costing upward of $200,000 under an executive order signed by President Biden.”
As The Dossier notes, America’s “military is facing its worst recruiting environment since 1973, when the conscription era ended and the current all-volunteer force was formed. As the Defense Department memo makes clear, the U.S. military in 2023 represents more of a social welfare and social justice program than an entity purposed with defeating an aggressing army.”
You can find the memo at this link.
