That is a lowball estimate of the actual time someone trying to go against biology will spend in an unavailable status to the military.
Follow up appointments post op problems...profiles against doing specific tasks and the recovery time after the profile is over.
These people that want to do this are gonna absolutely useless to the military probably for their entire enlistment.
Those 24 Republicans need to pay for these freaks to have their surgery as civilians if they believe so strongly in supporting these people's mental illness.