I think that what--you are invoking a privilege but has the court upheld it?

If someone has already had the surgery, has transitioned, the likelihood of gender dysphoria drops dramatically.

Congress cannot let the administration's discriminatory impulses win out.

There is nothing about being transgender that diminishes a person's ability to serve in the military.

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.

I am sorry but okay well, we will go through, but it sounds like this decision was not one that people took part in and that that is a problem.

You can redact the names.

You are the first five transgender service members ever to testify openly in front of the House of Representatives.

Did the Department of Defense perform any systematic surveys or comparisons of the actual experiences of military units with or without transgender personnel?

You know, I am truly astonished by your presentation so I must say, you have just had the opportunity to listen to 5 transgender service members, 10, 15 years, many of them leaders, many of them deployed multiple times and can you honestly…

And how has the administration thanked you? By treating you like a liability, not an asset; by maliciously jeopardizing your careers and trivializing your sacrifice.

Despite living in a nation where many discriminate against you, you made a choice that fewer and fewer Americans make, you joined the military and risked your lives and your families' well-beings for our safety.