The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department’s firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends 8 times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care.
While discussing military spending with the Defense Department (DoD) attorney for the ongoing Talbott v Trump case, Judge Ana Reyes said the DoD spends approximately $5.2 million annually on medical care for service members with gender dysphoria.
Comparatively, the DoD spends $42 million a year on medication for service members with erectile dysfunction.
The US District Judge asked: “It’s not even a rounding error, right?”
Viagra is gender affirming care.
So are the T injections conservatives are all taking these days…
Hell, when that one idiot told them to tan their but holes to increase testosterone, that was technically gender affirming care, just not actually effective.
If God wants you to have a limp dick that is his plan for you!!! How dare you go against God!!! 😆
Dick pills (and hair plugs) are gender affirming, you twats…
100%! If your dick don’t work, God doesn’t want you using it!!!
Ummm…that IS “gender affirming care”, though.
It was never about the money being spent. It is about othering fellow Americans and creating a Boogeyman for the Fox/OAN/etc. crowd.
Considering how cheap viagra is, this is actually kind of astonishing.
That is what viagra is.
“egregiously misquoted” sounds a lot like lying. I’m pretty sure that lying in federal court filings is a felony. These lawyers should be censured at minimum.
False Statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001)
The principal federal false statement statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1001, proscribes false statements, concealment, or false documentation in any matter within the jurisdiction of any of the three branches of the federal government. It applies generally within the executive branch. Within the judicial branch, it applies to all but presentations to the court by parties or their attorneys in judicial proceedings. Within the legislative branch, it applies to administrative matters such as procurement, as well as to “any investigations and reviews, conducted pursuant to the authority of any committee, subcommittee, commission, or office of the Congress consistent with applicable rules of the House or Senate.”
A lot of people read the comments without having read the article, so for them here’s the bit you’re taking about:
At one point, attorneys had to admit to Reyes that they had never read articles which were included as evidence. Reyes then said they had “cherry picked” and “egregiously misquoted” studies put forward by the Pentagon on transgender people decreasing the lethality of the military.
Thanks. I really should have quoted the whole passage.
I don’t think the taxpayers should subsidize male erections… call me crazy.
Our taxes should be used to pay for universal health care that covers ALL medical issues, including erectile distribution, gender affirming care, abortions, IVF, etc.
Everything. For everyone.
that I’m fine with, I just don’t like the idea of curving out niches for certain groups versus universal health care
And that’s just the supply for Hegseth’s whiskey dick.
That’s is gender affirming care. Lol It’s only ok if trans people don’t get it, I suppose… /s
Too Drunk To Fuck
sigh Everything reminds me of her…
The DoD knows how to make a soldier happy; blue pills and hummers ;)
Amphetamines are prob getting a military boost in the coming years.
I swear, you have to be so entrenched in media to understand a headline like this.
