transgenders - trump shows commonsense, page-71

THIS is hard to swallow...

The US military blows $US41.6 million ($52 million) a year on Viagra for its troops — about five times more than the estimated medical costs for transgender servicepeople, according to a new report.

Spending on the little blue pills is part of $US84 million ($105 million) total the military plunks down annually for erectile dysfunction medicines, according to the Washington Post, which cited a 2015 report by the Military Times.

The eye-popping stats resurfaced Wednesday, the same day President Trump announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military because of “the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.”

A study published last year by the Rand Corp. and commissioned by the Defense Department estimated that treatments for transgender troops would run the military between $US2.4 million ($3 million) and $US8.4 million ($10.5 million) annually, the Washington Post reported.

The higher estimate for transgender expenses is equal to less than a tenth of the price of a new F-35 fighter jet — or a thousandth of 1 per cent of the Defense Department’s annual budget, the Post pointed out..

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