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submitted 23 hours ago by streetfestival@lemmy.ca to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca

On Tuesday, May 19, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2616, the "Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act," by a vote of 217-198. The bill would hand the Trump administration enormous leverage to strip federal funding from any school that “teaches or advances concepts” related to transgender people, codifying into federal law the anti-trans definitions from Trump's executive order 14168, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism." It would also require public schools to forcibly out transgender students to their parents before using their pronouns or chosen names. The bill is significant on its own terms for the harm it would inflict on transgender youth if it became law. But what made Tuesday's vote especially notable was the eight Democrats who joined every Republican to pass it—the largest Democratic defection on any standalone anti-trans bill of this Congress.

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[-] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 20 hours ago

Usual suspects. See that (D-TX) on the wrong side of just about everything.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

Cuellar is painful because Cisneros would've been such a boon for both Texas and the Progressive caucus. In 2022 the DNC and Pelosi intervened personally on that primary race in favor of Cuellar.

While Roe v Wade was being overturned and there was a push to codify it, they picked the anti-abortion candidate.

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