This is apparently an anti-trans attack ad but to me it’s more like, yeah I definitely would rather we spend that money on healthcare than death machines?
How is this even a question let alone one they expect the opposite answer to? It’s pure brutality…
I like how it looks like it’s implying we’re spending $Billions on Chelsea Manning’s estradiol
I did the math when this came up on twitter.
HRT + SRS costs, on average, 25,000$. There’s 1.5 million people in the US military. Even if every single person in the US military was trans, that’s only 37 billion dollars.
That plane there? That’s the F-35, which the US has spent 400 BILLION on so far, just in developing the thing. That means the US could literally give hormone replacement therapy and sexual reassignment surgery to EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF THE MILITARY AND IT WOULD STILL BE CHEAPER THAN THAT ONE STUPID PLANE.
(Or for that matter, the US military is planning to spend 1.5 trillion dollars on the F-35 overall. For that much money you could instead afford to give 19% of all Americans HRT/SRS. One in five people!)