undergoing an operation make national headlines? when that active duty service member is having gender confirmation surgery and it s paid for by the pentagon on donald trump s watch. remember, back in july and via a tweet, president trump announced he was reinstating a ban on transgender individuals from serving in the u.s. military. the president s ban caused my next guest to say right here on my program, that if the government wouldn t provide for transsoldiers she would. dr. christine mcginn, a former u.s. navy flight surgeon who herself is transgender offered to perform gender confirmation surgery on u.s. military for free. this week as he prepared to form her 30 related surgery since her pledge. her patient got a surprise. the pentagon said it would shoulder part of the cost. this is the first time ever the government would have paid for a vaginoplasty. dr. christine mcginn is back