{"id":28892,"date":"2017-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/senator-reacts-to-news-the-defence-force-is-paying-for-staff-sex-changes\/"},"modified":"2017-10-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:00:00","slug":"senator-reacts-to-news-the-defence-force-is-paying-for-staff-sex-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/senator-reacts-to-news-the-defence-force-is-paying-for-staff-sex-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Reacts To News The Defence Force Is Paying For Staff Sex Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Monday it emerged that the ADF has spent more than $1 million in the past five years on sex change ops for 27 recruits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cDefence should be free of political correctness,\u201d Senator Cory Bernardi told FIVEAA on Tuesday. \u201cIf people want to undergo medical operations or surgeries not associated with being injured or wounded in combat or training I think it\u2019s their responsibility.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe ADF shouldn\u2019t be a PC house to help people transition from male to female. 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