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.

  • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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    11 month ago

    I expect the party that ran on protecting trans kids to take a stand. But I am done supporting the democrats now.

    • @finitebanjo
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      11 month ago

      So you choose 0%, wow thats sick anon.

      • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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        01 month ago

        Anything else is just the illusion of choice. They control the options. So they can always come up with something worse to set next to the option it wants. The only influence you have as a chooser is to call thier bluff. If you don’t you might as well just let have whatever they want.

        In this case, I hate to ask more of our service members. But I know I can count on them to fight back. Choosing zero is calling them to service once more to protect the freedom of our nation. Specifically thier freedom to use the benefit they were promised when they enlisted. And I have faith that they will rise to the occasion.

        • @finitebanjo
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          11 month ago

          They literally didn’t choose the 0% yet you claim the thing they did actually choose is an illusion?

            • @finitebanjo
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              11 month ago

              Got it, you think yes is no and up is down, lmao

              • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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                01 month ago

                Well more like you think signing the bill is a victory, and I am saying it is capitulation.

                • @finitebanjo
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                  1 month ago

                  Signing it is a defeat, and its our fault for voting in a conservative 119th Congress after voting in a split 118th Congress. Blaming Biden and blaming Democrats exasperates the problem that caused this.

                  • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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                    01 month ago

                    So you are saying that because the Republicans are incoming, biden should represent thier way? I voted for biden to represent democrats untill the end. The Republicans will have plenty of thier own time to do republican things.