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.

  • @fritobugger2017
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    318 days ago

    Title is quite disingenuous. Doesn’t match content.

    • ArchRecordOP
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      -118 days ago

      Apologies if it seems disingenuous, but if I’d copied the entire original title, it would have been about 30% longer, and it’s already relatively lengthy to begin with.

      I did my best to ensure the title of my post matched the relevant content and context of the article and respective event.

      • @jordanlund
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        118 days ago

        We don’t allow editorialized headlines, but I’ll give you a chance to revert it before removing it.

        “President Biden Signs Defense Bill Blocking Health Care For Trans Military Children, First Anti-LGBTQ+ Federal Law Enacted Since ‘Defense of Marriage Act’”

          • @jordanlund
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            118 days ago

            Summarizing by the OG news editor is fine.

            • @[email protected]
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              418 days ago

              So then all a bad actor would need to do is pick a source that has the headline that manipulates people the way they want to? Ie pick the fox story over MSNBC. Or pick some hate group like fox over hrc.org?

              • @jordanlund
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                218 days ago

                Nope. Bad actor sites like Fox, OANN, Drudge, Breitbart, etc. are also not allowed.

                • @[email protected]
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                  218 days ago

                  You have a VERY limited list of sites that editorialize their headlines to manipulate readers.

                  • @jordanlund
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                    118 days ago

                    This is why we had the MBFC bot making bad actor sites immediately apparent. People hated that though.