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Derrick Van Orden: “When someone joins the military and they decide to, you…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Congressional Hearing on Transition Assistance Program and Veteran Support

Published | Video Starts at 04:10

I just want to cover something that Mr. Pappas referenced, his opening statements. So currently the DoD is deployed to about 60 countries at any given time, and that's not going to change. And When someone joins the military and they decide to, you know, transition from one gender to another, that's a two to three to four year process. where people are taking hormones, then having some very, very, absolutely brutal barbaric surgeries. And they're non deployable at that point. And so if someone decides to do this, and that's up to them. (04:10–04:22)

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Asserts that gender transition in the military takes two to four years.

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