"Policy decisions... impacting our service members should be based on science."
"So much like Don't Ask, Don't Tell, you can serve if you are transgender but you're going to only be able to serve in your birth gender so you are going to have to hide the fact that you are transgend..."
"You can redact the names."
"So I think the concern that many of us have is that, if you are going to put a subsequent layer of assessment that is subjective, it could easily be twisted in a manner that could allow for the decisi..."
"People who are in the military should be allowed to seek health care for whatever issues they might have, whether it is trans related or not."
"Transgender service members have been serving openly and deploying for the last 2½ years."
"I think that what--you are invoking a privilege but has the court upheld it?"
"Yes or no, are you aware that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and all four service chiefs testified to Congress last year that there were no, I repeat, no issues related to cohesion, discipl..."
"You are the first five transgender service members ever to testify openly in front of the House of Representatives."
"Congress cannot let the administration's discriminatory impulses win out."
"Transgender service members are deployable and effective."