Lori Trahan actually said...

"the medical costs of a transition-related health care, it is actually not making a dent in the Department of Defense's overall healthcare budget."

"the outcomes will be the same. We are actually going to add to the shortage that we already have today and put our readiness at risk."

"the retraining cost of losing just one transgender military pilot is 3 times more than the entire transition-related care for the military in one year."

"What is the value proposition? What is the--how are we going to attract and retain the best and the brightest from everything from MIT to competitive community colleges to help us tackle this problem?"