{"id":20989,"date":"2017-07-26T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/07\/26\/the-military-spends-more-on-giving-retirees-erections-than-on-transgender-troops\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:46:29","slug":"the-military-spends-more-on-giving-retirees-erections-than-on-transgender-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/2017\/07\/26\/the-military-spends-more-on-giving-retirees-erections-than-on-transgender-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"The military spends more on giving retirees erections than on transgender troops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Defense Department spends 10 times as much money on Viagra and other erectile dysfunction medications than it spends on healthcare services for transgender troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Trump tweeted on Wednesday that transgender service members could be forcibly separated because the Defense Department cannot \u201cbe burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Trump\u2019s concerns about cost were met Wednesday with a wave <\/a>of articles <\/a>citing <\/a>previous Military Times reporting and comparing treatment of transgender troops to erectile dysfunction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reports noted<\/a> that the estimated <\/a>$8 million per year that the Defense Department will spend on health care for about 7,000 transgender troops is minuscule compared to how much the military spends to treat sexual dysfunction in men.<\/p>\n\n\n\t