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.
This is crazy 🤪