Political Quotes

“let me just put some numbers to this. Over the course of 5 years, the Pentagon spent $15 million--$15 million--in treating 1,892 transgender troops, including $11.5 million for psychotherapy and $3.1 million for surgeries, according to the Department of Defense. The price tag for individual gender-affirming surgical procedures and other medical treatments can range from $8,000 to $100,000. To compare hip surgery to a sex-change operation, it is two different worlds and two different thoughts that we just have a complete difference of opinion. I think if you take a survey of any of the troops, Mr. Chair, who are serving this country, the vast majority would say that transgender surgeries have no place in the military. The public to be borne with that price tag is, to be honest with you, Mr. Chair, incomprehensible. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”