read those words and to hear those words. and i just remember how devastated if i felt the first time i read the tweets to myself and had them read to me by other people. and at this point, you know, i don't have any reservations at all. i am so just wicked excited to finally be able to start my career and live out my dream. you know, this is the united states military. and they can do anything they set their minds to. and it's not going to be any type of burden whatsoever to be able to accept trance folks like myself into the branches. >> your attitude is admirable. a 2016 study by the rand corporation estimates that the number of transgender people actively serving in the u.s. military is somewhere between 1,300 and 6,600. that's out of 1.3 million service members. and yet critics have complained, nicholas, about the ongoing cost of medical care for people who are transgender. what do you tell them? >> you know, everybody has medical costs in their lives, no

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