2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Just days after US President Donald Trump announced that he would ban transgender people from joining the military, a former Navy surgeon reported that she will "donate" gender confirmation surgeries, that is, she will do them for free, for some members of the army of this country.
According to CNN, Dr. Christine McGinn, who is transgender herself, offered not to charge for this surgery with this condition: they will have to be patients of her and they should have been scheduled to undergo surgery before Trump's announcement.
"If the commander in chief doesn't deal with our veterans, our veterans will," said McGinn. "I'm going to do the surgery for free on the number of people I've already lined up for the surgery, (and I am) more than happy."
Trump last week announced through a series of tweets his veto of transgender people in the military. The message in part stated that after consulting with its generals and military experts, the United States government decided that "it will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the United States military."
The president said the move was because US forces "must focus on a decisive and overwhelming victory" and cannot afford to shoulder "the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender people would bring."
McGinn disagrees with that information, believing that "the cost of disposing of highly specialized and trained military service personnel is exceptionally greater than caring for them."
A 2016 study by the RAND Corporation, commissioned by the Department of Defense, estimated that 1,320 to 6,630 transsexuals serve in the military. Some public policy groups put the number as high as 15,500.
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