President Biden Signs Defense Bill Blocking Health Care For Trans…
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Thousands of Military Families Now Face Loss of Medically Necessary Care for Their Children

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.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    But, if we went into the next administration without a defense funding bill, Republicans would still get what they did, and have the chance to attach anything else they wanted as well.

    They will have the ability to pass anything they want as a standalone bill. That’s no reason for Democrats to be complicit now. This is the last word trans people will get from Democrats for a long time.

    The choice the Democrats had was this, or worse than this, so Biden signed.

    Worse than this is already inevitable. Democrats could have chosen to not do this. And let’s not pretend that this was reluctant, either. Not with the sheer numbers of Democratic votes this got. And this is after a campaign season during which Democrats ran ads with Republican anti-trans bigotry.

    Going into the next administration, Democrats will have zero power to be complicit in anything.

    So they’re taking advantage of the opportunity now.

    Wow, you have no fucking clue how I feel about holding Democrats accountable.

    You’ve been making excuses for them throwing trans people under the bus here.

    I just hold them accountable for the things they actually have power over.

    And their hands are always conveniently tied.