Cost of treating transgender troops called negligible

[stephaniec]

Cost of treating transgender troops called negligible

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/12/transgender-troops-treatment/31537791/

USA Today/Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY 5:39 p.m. EDT August 12, 2015

"WASHINGTON — Treating the military's estimated 12,800 transgender troops with hormone therapy and surgery will cost about $5.6 million a year, a tiny amount compared with overall spending on military health care, according to an article published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.

The cost of medical care will be a key factor as the Pentagon develops a plan to integrate transgender troops, which it announced last month. Defense Secretary Ash Carter gave his staff six months to work out details to allow them to serve openly, which current policy does not allow."

[suzifrommd]

Treating the military's estimated 12,800 transgender troops with hormone therapy and surgery will cost about $5.6 million a year, a tiny amount compared with overall spending on military health care, according to an article published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.

And how much will it cost if we don't treat them, but instead deal with 12,800 cases of gender dysphoria and their psychological fallout?