Exclusive: Pentagon spent nearly $8 million to treat 1,500 transgender troops since 2016

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[–]magnora7 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

8 million is absolutely nothing, not even worth mentioning

The fake war in Iraq was 2 TRILLION dollars. That's a MILLION TIMES more money.

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't disagree.

[–]RuckFeddit 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (6 children)

I hate everything about trannies being allowed in the military but the thought of an army of trannies in battle is hilarious. Imagine the casualties before the war even starts. Imagine the medics frantically chasing after the suicide attempts. Imagine them desperately trying to perform gender reassignment surgery on the battlefield to boost morale. Imagine them joining ISIS and giving them weaponry because muh tolerance. Imagine them doing literally anything as they are seriously mentally ill and you've just handed them a gun and told them to kill something other than themselves.

If we didn't have such a PC climate, this could honestly be the funniest fucking movie of the past 15 years.

[–]Otacon 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The military has mandatory psych evaluations, and past that you gotta be a little stronger willed than the average bear to get through training and actually be allowed on a battlefield. There's no way in fuck that you'd see some epidemic of trans soldiers offing themselves or some kind of "mentally ill" group of soldiers doing stupid shit like giving the enemy weapons.

I get that some people think that "Le 40%" is just absolutely drop dead hilarious but the reality is that 40% isn't even a legitimate statistic for civilian population (40% is just suicide attempts and that stat accounts for any attempt at any point in life, which means that stat is subject to outside factors such as an already high teen suicide rate), let alone military populations.

[–]RuckFeddit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Notice how I mentioned it as suicide attempts.

Explain to me how a modern day mentally ill tranny would cope with the horror of war.

You know how many Jews committed suicide during the supposed "holocaust"? about 1 in 100.

I'm going to need clarification on how you think the pressures of modern warfare, which already leads a lot of post war vets to suicide, would be a good idea for a tranny, and more importantly, how this would not put the lives of their colleagues and civilians at serious risk.

[–]Otacon 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Notice how I mentioned it as suicide attempts.

My apologies.

Explain to me how a modern day mentally ill tranny would cope with the horror of war.

I suppose your strawman definition of a "modern day mentally ill tranny" might not make it, seeing as how you can define the actions of whatever strawman you whip up as you see fit, but a trans person who can make it through every psych evaluation and handle all the training and torture you have to go through to actually be qualified enough to see combat would by definition be fully capable of handling the horrors of war, at least to the same degree as your average soldier, because the military would have already weeded out those that can't handle it. The army doesn't just let the average joe walk in off the street and ask for a flak vest and they send him off that day; There's a whole process to it.

[–]RuckFeddit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fair points my dude. I'll concede the strawman.

I honestly don't know about the psych evaluation process so I can't comment further on that.

However I don't think putting a tranny in with a majority of low IQ knuckledraggers is a good idea, even if they do pass the psych initially. As a group their breaking point has been demonstrated as very low.

[–]bald-janitor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

40%

[–]GreenCappy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How triggered will you be if you replaced "trannies" with "white people"?

[–]Butttcandy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That isn't that bad tbh

[–]basedaf1 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

its not bad compared to the costs of the military. Per a person, its not great. Not terrible, but not great

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not terrible, but not great.

I find this very funny.

We're accustomed to outrageous budget figures, so this is reasonable by comparison.
Conversely, the budget line item is an eyebrow raiser...