A heated debate erupted on Capitol Hill after a Republican lawmaker, Nancy Mace, argued that the U.S. military should focus exclusively on combat readiness and warfighting, not funding gender-transition-related medical procedures for service members.

“We want the toughest warfighters in the world, not a military gutted by gender delusion,” Mace said in a post on X.

A heated debate erupted on Capitol Hill after a Republican lawmaker, Nancy Mace, argued that the U.S. military should focus exclusively on combat readiness and warfighting, not…