Well that's fucking disgusting and abhorrent. Not to mention ignorant and shortsighted https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890197095151546369 …
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Replying to @GidMK
Let's break down this nonsense a bit. Assume he's talking about the costs of surgery and HRT
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Replying to @GidMK
Surgery costs vary, but let's take a high estimate and say $50,000 per surgery (only the best surgeons for the army)
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Replying to @GidMK
HRT is much more expensive in the US than anywhere else, with a whopping ~$1,500 price-tag per year. Let's say $2,000 just to be safe
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Replying to @GidMK
There are about 2.2 million soldiers in the US army, and trans people make up ~0.6% of the population. So about 13,200 in the army
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Replying to @GidMK
That means that paying for a lifetime of HRT and surgery for ALL of them would cost about $1.2 billion. So about 0.002% of the budget
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Replying to @GidMK
Which is infinitely less than paying the costs of treatment for, say, PTSD or amputations
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Replying to @GidMK
True cost analyses already reported - cost of trans health care trivial cf US military expenditure on drugs for erectile dysfunction - ffs!
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Replying to @DrRobMBBS
I couldn't find one - do you have the link? I'm not surprised at all to be honest, this is obviously pure transphobia
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I just googled it in the end, wasn't hard to find!
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