{"id":75962,"date":"2017-11-15T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75962"},"modified":"2017-11-15T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:53:52","slug":"active-duty-transgender-service-member-gets-reassignment-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75962","title":{"rendered":"Active duty transgender service member gets reassignment surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that the Pentagon has announced that it has paid for gender reassignment surgery for an active duty servicemember.<\/p>\n

Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White said the surgery was done Tuesday in a private hospital and was paid for by the military’s health coverage because the doctor deemed it was medically necessary.<\/p>\n

”Military hospitals do not have the surgical expertise to perform this type of surgery, therefore it was conducted in a private hospital,” White said, adding that because this servicemember “had already begun a sex-reassignment course of treatment, and the treating doctor deemed this surgery medically necessary, a waiver was approved by the director of the Defense Health Agency.”<\/p>\n

Army Maj. Dave Eastburn said that waivers are required and routinely approved for medical procedures that military facilities don’t have the expertise to perform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we’ve begun that trip down the slippery slope.<\/p>\n

The President had told the Pentagon to cease paying for the treatments unless the servicemember’s health was in danger. Apparently, that was the case here. I’m not a doctor, but I can’t imagine how the presence of a male appendage can put someone’s health in danger. Especially if they were born with one.<\/p>\n

So there’s one troop who can’t be deployed for an extended period of time. Sure hope that our enemies take that into account before staging their next attack – the fact that we’re going to fill the ranks with folks who we know will be non-deployable for most of their time in uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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