HRC Article:

WASHINGTON — Last night, President Biden signed the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law, which includes a provision inserted by Speaker Mike Johnson blocking healthcare for the transgender children of military servicemembers. This provision, the first anti-LGBTQ+ federal law enacted since the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, will rip medically necessary care from the transgender children of thousands of military families – families who make incredible sacrifices in defense of the country each and every day. The last anti-LGBTQ+ federal law that explicitly targeted military servicemembers was Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which went into effect in 1994.

Biden's press release:

No service member should have to decide between their family’s health care access and their call to serve our Nation.

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Because the election was a month ago and a new congress is about to take over immediately after a recess, at which point Trump will be entering office. Either a bipartisan bill passes now or a conservative one passes after January.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So what is the difference between a bipartisan anti-trans bill and a republican anti-trans bill, if both bills are designed by the Republicans?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Several Republican Amendments were removed from the final version of the bill, including blocking Palestinian Refugees, defunding the Pier in Palestine used to ship necessary aid in, stopping any military academy from engaging in Critical Race Theory, blocking reproductive care reimbursement for military, among many other things.

    If you want to read up on it, heres a good SUMMARY

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Either a bipartisan bill passes now or a conservative one passes after January.

    This is a conservative bill.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    Both conservative parties voted for the anti-trans bill you keep defending. It can be both bipartisan and conservative. That's what bipartisan has implied for at least a decade.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Its a really bad look to desperately try to remove as much context as possible.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    It's a really bad look to throw vulnerable minorities under the bus.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    And the Republicans should stop doing that, 100%.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    And Democrats shouldn't have overwhelmingly voted with them. If this came down to all Republicans and a couple Manchins, that would be one thing. But it didn't.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Democrats didn't add this to the defence bill. Democrats are compromising now after fighting these changes for a year so that the next even more conservative congress, voted in by people like you, in a month doesn't sign something far far far far worse, with actual death tolls and war crimes as a result.

    Go read some of the failed Republican Amendments to the 2024 NDAA.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Democrats didn’t add this to the defence bill.

    They didn't have to show overwhelming support for it, either. But since they agree with you that trans people are expendable, they did.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If those trans kids break a bone or get sick they get covered, so clearly I care more about them than you who wants them to get no coverage.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Know what happens when trans kids don't get the treatment that you and both parties don't want them to have? Know what happens when they can't get access to puberty blockers? Know what happens when their skeletons begin to ossify into a form abhorrent to them?

    Some of them commit suicide.

    I'd say you don't care, but I have no doubt whatsoever that dead trans kids are your preferred outcome.

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