The total cost of providing adequate medical care to the US estimated 1,3. WSJ reported, citing a 2. Rand Corp study. Even if you take the 8. One Palm Center and Naval Postgraduate School study found the cost of discharging and replacing trans service members could run as high as 9. Rands high end estimate. As for readiness, on Tuesday some 5. Trump saying the ban would disrupt the readiness of the armed forces. Research has shown there is no evidence trans troops disrupted anything in at least 1. The Rand study estimated just 2. By the way, the military at large has tens of thousands of soldiers unavailable for deployment at any given time for medical, legal or administrative reasons. As Gizmodo noted previously, the military is usually willing to shell out countless billions of dollars in sketchy contracts, unnecessary new equipment and sheer administrative waste. It wastes money left and right, and Trump wants to throw billions of dollars more on the pile anyhow. So the idea the US massive military industrial complex will be ground to a halt by the cost of paying for a few thousand soldiers heath care is beyond trite. Its insulting. Trump wants to fuck with people fighting in the US military because hes a cranky bigot, plain and simple. Wall Street Journal.