Adam Smith: “The U.S. should not provide the Taliban with capacity building support.”

Again, Mr. Chair, we are not talking about sex-change operations. This is just another example of the profound ignorance surrounding treatment for gender dysphoria. We are talking about any treatment.

I wish our adversaries were that stupid.

I want to really recognize the efforts of all of the staff that were involved in bringing us to this point to get the bill to the floor: certainly the House Armed Services Committee staff, and the bipartisan staff, ably led on both sides…

I think that whole thing has created a major problem as well.