Susan Wright (not all the time but this time*) writing at Red State posted the names of the Republicans who voted to sustain the use of tax dollars to mutilate some seriously mentally unstable individuals who are members of the armed services and in the process grossly compromise unit readiness.
Excerpt (read more at the link)
(Rep Vicki) Hartzler forced the vote in the House to restrict the Obama-era policy of paying for the surgeries, hormone therapy, and other measures to accommodate those military members stricken with gender dysphoria.
If someone has a known mental illness, they should not be allowed to join the military, period. The battlefield is no place to test the resolve of those who are mentally unwell.
. . . Say, if I want breast augmentation, believe it’s necessary to fix my mental health, but I can’t pay for it, can I just join the military and have them foot the bill?
Hartzler’s comments in June.
“By recruiting and allowing transgender individuals to serve in our military we are subjecting taxpayers to high medical costs including up to $130,000 per transition surgery, lifetime hormone treatments, and additional surgeries to address the high percentage of individuals who experience complications.” . . .
Hartzler maintained that her amendment would increase readiness, however. “The deployability of individuals going through the sex transition process is highly problematic, requiring 210 to 238 work days where a soldier is non-deployable after surgery,” she said. “This recovery time equates to 1.4 million manpower days where transgender personnel cannot deploy and fight our nation’s wars, therefore relying on an already stressed force to pick up the burden. It makes no sense to purposely recruit individuals who cannot serve.”
Republicans voting in opposition Hartzler’s amendment:
California Rep. Paul Cook
California Rep. Jeff Denham
California Rep. Steve Knight
California Rep. Darrell Issa
Colorado Rep Mike Coffman
Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo
Florida Rep. Lena Ros-Lehtinen
Florida Rep. Brian Mast
Michigan Rep. Justin Amash
Michigan Rep. Jack Bergman
New Jersey Rep. Leonard Lance
New Jersey Rep. Frank Lobiondo
New Jersey Rep. Tom MacArthur
New York Rep. John Faso
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik
New York Rep. Tom Reed
New York Rep. John Katko
New York Rep. Claudia Tenney
Pennsylvania Rep. Ryan Costello
Pennsylvania Rep. Charles Dent
Pennsylvania Rep. Bill Shuster
Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick
Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock
Washington Rep. David Reichert
R Mall
*Red State is no longer a favored site for us as trust in its objectivity has been damaged by its stable of writers’ betrayal of conservatism’s practicality by their approach to Donald Trump after his nomination. If only they could defend conservatism without obsessively going out of the way to inject something undeservedly snarky about Trump. It seems like each has to prove to the others that they are still maintaining the in-house purity of never Trumpism or something.
That said we are still on their e-mail list and occasionally an article’s title catches our eye. We also note that they do not accept criticism well as we tried to correct an article on a matter unrelated to Trump a couple of years ago with a mild admonition and we were banned from commenting. No other conservative blog site that we are aware of is so pathetic in its sensitivity. So when we do refer to an article of theirs we will not avoid employing the same presumptions of good will and tone they offer other conservatives. We just won’t ban them unilaterally.
