The Republican House rejected an attempt to ban transgender surgery for US troops.
The surgery and hormone treatments will now be offered to by the Department of Defense.
Because there’s nothing more important for our military than sex change operations.
The vote failed 214 to 209
24 Republicans voted with Democrats to defeat the amendment.
Liberals cheered the vote.
They think you should pay for the
The Washington Post reported:
The Republican-led House narrowly rejected a measure on Thursday that sought to strike an Obama-era practice of requiring the Pentagon to pay for gender transition surgeries and hormone therapy.
Democrats described the proposal as bigoted, unconstitutional and cowardly and they won support from 24 GOP lawmakers to scuttle the amendment to the annual defense policy bill, 214-209.
The amendment crafted by Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., would have forbid money from being spent by the military’s health care system for medical treatment related to gender transition. Hartzler portrayed her proposal as a good government plan aimed at assuring military dollars are spent only on critical national defense needs.
Reader Angelina sent this in on the vote.
24 REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVES THAT VOTED TO DEFEAT THIS BILL
The amendment authored by Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., would have stopped money from being spent by the military’s health care system for medical treatment related to gender transition.
H R 2810 RECORDED VOTE 13-Jul-2017 5:41 PM
AUTHOR(S): Hartzler of Missouri Amendment No. 10
AMASH Mi 3Rd District
BERGMAN MI 1ST DISTRICT
COFFIN CO 6TH DISTRICT
COMSTOCK VA 10TH
COOK CA 8TH DISTRICT
COSTELLO PA 6TH DISTRICT
CURBELO FL 26TH DISTRICT
DEHAM CA 10TH DISTRICT
DENT PA 15TH DISTRICT
FASO NY 19TH DISTRICT
FITZPATRICK PA 8TH DISTRICT
ISSA CA 49TH DISTRICT
KATKO NY 24TH DISTRICT
KNIGHT CA 25TH DISTRICT
LANCE NJ 7TH
LOBIONDO NJ 2ND
MACARTHUR NJ 3RD
MAST FL 18TH
REED NY 23RD DISTRICT
REICHERT WA 8TH DISTRICT
ROS LEHTINEN FL 27TH DISTRICT
SHUSTER PA 9TH DISTRICT
STEFANIK NY 21ST DISTRICT
TENNEY NY 101ST
NOT VOTING
RODNEY DAVIS IL 13TH DISTRICT
SAM JOHNSON TX 3RD DISTRICT
LABRADOR ID 1ST DISTRICT
SANFORD SC 1ST DISTRICT
SCALES LA 1ST DISTRICT
VAIADAD CA 21ST DISTRICT
