A provision tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act forces parents in the military to weigh their careers against providing health care for loved ones.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23002617

House Republicans have tucked a provision into a must-pass defense bill that would strip health care from military families’ transgender kids, putting parents in a position of having to choose between their careers in the military and providing medically necessary health care for their loved ones.

The language slipped into the National Defense Authorization Act, which the House is voting on later this week, is buried on page 399 of the 1,813-page bill. Republicans added it at the last minute, after Democrats had worked with them to help craft the legislation.

It’s just one sentence: “Medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization may not be provided to a child under the age of 18.”

  • FlashMobOfOne
    9•21 hours ago

    “Must Pass” Defense Bill

    LOL, as if Democrats couldn’t refuse to vote. I’m so sick of excuses. As if their poor hands are tied and we shouldn’t expect them to actually be an opposition party.

  • queermunist she/her
    14•1 day ago

    They want to kill us. They’re just going after children first, but make no mistake, the plan is eventually zero federal dollars for any form of gender affirming care.. Gender affirming care will have to be outsourced to independent clinics that don’t take federal dollars, like abortion services, and that’s going to mean a lot of us lose all access. And, like abortion services, that also means it’ll be up to the states to ban it entirely.

    I’m not going to die quietly.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      5•1 day ago

      No, this needs to be a fight they don’t win easily, and trans people mustn’t be left to fight it on their own. What organizations are fighting for trans people in the USA? Does any organization take donations to help fund gender-affirming medical care for people who can’t afford it? Does any organization take donations for good lawyers to fight every one of these moves on behalf of trans people? I’m not even in the USA but fascism is rising everywhere and we need people everywhere to get active in this fight.