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.

  • @PugJesus
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    -214 hours ago

    It was one of a number of factors.

    Nice backpedal, lmao.

    Do you suppose they lost because they didn’t sell enough weapons to your favorite person for your favorite activity?

    Nowhere have I said anything even vaguely resembling that, but I guess that your list of talking points isn’t all that great at addressing people with actual political views.

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      214 hours ago

      your list of talking points

      This is a shill accusation.

      • @PugJesus
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        -214 hours ago

        This is a shill accusation.

        It’s an accusation that all you have are canned talking points with no relevance to the actual person you’re claiming to argue with. Like those GOP voters who waddle into their polling place with a handy pamphlet telling them who and what to vote for - it’s not that they’re shills. It’s that they have no understanding of politics and utterly lack imagination, relying instead on repetitive tribalist bullshit to engage, for what little that’s worth, in the civic process.

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          214 hours ago

          It’s an accusation that all you have are canned talking points with no relevance

          No, it was a shill accusation. I will not continue this conversation any further.