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.

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    19 hours ago

    Being willing to sacrifice the rights and protections of ‘a few’ minorities so that our already inflated military doesn’t face delays in payment is exactly what Biden and the other democrats are being criticized for here.

    That you agree that those rights are unimportant isn’t exactly the impassioned defense you think it is

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      17 hours ago

      Being willing to sacrifice the rights and protections of ‘a few’ minorities

      Democrats aren’t just willing to sacrifice trans people. They’re eager to.

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      15 hours ago

      Anyone who could vote and says they care about the rights of trans people better have voted for Harris or you have no standing on this issue.

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        11 hours ago

        Lmao

        “Only people who were able to set aside their moral/ethical objections to genocide are qualified to speak on the topic of standing up for minority rights”