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
    41·
    19 hours ago

    What? Who said they did? Republicans need to throw someone under the bus. That’s fascist strategy 101.

    And Democrats play along. That’s complicity 101.

    Let’s put you in charge of the party then. Who do you choose to sacrifice instead?

    Your question is based on the incorrect assumption that fascists are happy when they have achieved the sacrifice of one group. Who do you choose to sacrifice next? Because there will be a next. The trans people you consider expendable? When Republicans move on to the next entry on their “then they came for” list, there is one fewer entry between you and being the group Democrats are willing to jettison to save the dwindling whole.

    One small charity could completely mitigate this issue for everyone, so why aren’t you working on that?

    I know why you aren’t. In my case, this happened yesterday. But hey, anyone who describes a problem has to singlehandedly solve it as it happens, or nothing they say is valid.

    This is just the beginning of the shit this country will be dealing with for at least the next couple of years.

    Yup. Democrats shoveling vulnerable populations into the maw in an effort they know to be in vain to placate implacable fascists.

    You want to play these fucking games and pretend that Democrats are the enemy, then the blood can be on your hands.

    Democrats are culpable for their complicity. You just want no accountability as your party turns quisling.

    I say this fully aware that the Democrats are on the wrong side of lots of issues that I care about,

    They’re on the wrong side of a lot of issues you don’t consider important too.

    • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      It’s not about making fascists “happy”, and no, I have no delusions on that account, and I don’t consider anyone expendable. 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. The choice the Democrats had was this, or worse than this, so Biden signed.

      Going into the next administration, Democrats will have zero power to be complicit in anything. The people “shoveling vulnerable populations into the maw” will be Republicans - the same people that do it today.

      You just want no accountability as your party turns quisling.

      Wow, you have no fucking clue how I feel about holding Democrats accountable. I just hold them accountable for the things they actually have power over. I’ve ripped Harris to shreds over her cowardly hiding from trans issues in the campaign, and Biden before that. I’ve been advocating for overthrowing the Democratic establishment for 30 years.