The Pentagon paid for the current soldier sex change operation.
On this Monday, November 14, said the defense Ministry, on the background of the ongoing debate about whether to allow transgender people to serve in the armed forces.
As the speaker of the Ministry of defense Dana white, the operation was carried out in a private hospital and paid for thanks army insurance, as the doctor believed that surgery is necessary from a medical point of view.
«Military hospitals have no experience of such operations, so it was done in a private clinic,» said white, adding that soldiers «have already began the process of sex change», which operation was approved as necessary for the health of the employee.
The name of the military has not been disclosed, but according to NBC, this soldier of infantry, which identificeret herself as a woman, and received the 2003 award for the «operation Anaconda» in Afghanistan.
We will remind, in August of this year, President Donald trump has signed a decree on the termination of financing transactions for the military-transgender, and forbade the Pentagon to accept transgender recruits.
Later, the two organizations have filed lawsuits challenging the decree, and in October a Federal court partially blocked the trump ban on military service of transgender people.
