Laurie Buckhout: “Our recruiting is so bad, but here's a way to get it up. We…”

“That's the Army's personnel folks. Right. In a meeting. And the deputy G1, the deputy leader of all the Army's human resources, stood up and said, you know what? Our recruiting is so bad, but here's a way to get it up. We appealed transgenders that they can come in the military and they can get their surgery for free. Then they'll get their four years of medication or whatever it takes to keep them transgender, because that's a lifelong. That's a lifelong medical experiment. Right. I mean, right out of.” (21:57–22:06)

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