secretary carter: with respect to cost, i will mention that peter levine will be here later. the reason they concluded the cost would be minimal is that the medical treatment service members are currently transgender, is fairly straightforward. with respect to assessing new members as i indicated, they will have already completed and been stable in the transition for a period of not less than 18 months before they can access the medical costs associated with that. with respect to the timetable, implementation, as indicated in the statement, the preparation of the medical guidance to do that, so they all have a standard protocol. given the 90 days to that. the commanders guidance, the chairman and the chiefs asked for 90 days to prepare that commanders guidance and the training guidance. i think that is reasonable. they have begun some of that. the rest of the time is time to force, which is comparable to the time it takes to train the force with don't ask, don't tell. we do have some experience with this kind of thing. we are following that template. >> the report today that

>> with respect to cost, i will mention that peter levine will be here later. the reason they concluded the cost would be minimal is that the medical treatment service members are currently transgender, is fairly straightforward. with respect to assessing new members as i indicated, they will have already completed and been stable in the transition for no less than a two month. with respect to the timetable, as indicated in the statement, the preparation of the medical guidance. to do that. standardll have a protocol. given the 90 days to that. guidance thes chairman and the cheese asked for 90 days to prepare that commanders guidance. the rest of the time is time to train in the force which is comparable to the time it takes to train the force with don't ask, don't tell. experiencesome in -- with this kind of thing. we are following that template. >> [indiscernible] skeptic abouta cooperating with russia notarial he given that their motives are different than those of the .nited states >> we both operate in neighboring areas. they said they were coming to figh

. >> with that respect to cost and by the way i will mention that peter levine will be here later and it will be prepared to answer questions in detail. the reason the rant concluded that costs would be minimal is that the medical treatment that servicemembers who are currently transgender requires fairly straightforward understood they were able to make those estimates and that was as they said minimal. and with respect to assessing new members as they and dictated they will have our ready completed their transition for period of not less than 18 months before they can assess and the medical costs associated with that. with respect to the timetable for implementation, as i indicated the preparation of medical guidance, that's up to the doctors who need to do that so that doctors and military treatment facilities will have a standard protocol. we are giving them 90 days to do that. that's what they asked for. the commander's guidance, as they indicated the chairman and achieves asked for 90 days in that regard to prepare that commanders guidance and the training guidance and i agreed

secretary carter: with respect to cost, i will mention that peter levine will be here later. the reason they concluded the cost would be minimal is that the medical treatment service members are currently transgender, is fairly straightforward. with respect to assessing new members as i indicated, they will have already completed and been stable in the transition