Republicans are quietly pushing to defund transgender healthcare even for adults
Republicans are quietly pushing to defund transgender healthcare even for adults
For a year and a half, GOP lawmakers have been stealthily adding amendements to government appropriations bills, which are key to funding major government departments, to ban any federal money being used for gender transition procedures. This will dramatically curtail trans people’s access to medica...
Quietly?
In what way have they been subtle about loudly and proudly proclaiming what everyone else can or cannot do with their body?
Yes, because it is "quiet" when you feature your hatred of trans people in multiple speeches at your national convention.
They will take away our care, they claim it's about kids, but its not. They just don't think we should be allowed to exist at all.
It's quiet because the media don't report on it.
Because conservatives own all the major networks now
They feel the same way about Teh Ghey, but they realized they more or lost that culture war once gay marriage was the law of the land - at least for now - so they pivoted to focusing on trans like a laser beam. I don't think it is an accident that they started obsessing over where people poop almost right after gay marriage was a done deal.
Quietly? Is this reporter deaf?
Hey, I’m deaf and I can feel the noise they’re making about it in my feet
The rhythmless and off-tempo stomping from out-of-shape Repub Nazis marching through the streets.
Digging in on the wrong side of history is a core tenet of conservatism.
Who coulda fuckin predicted
"Quietly"
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives last January, GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill have quietly added a wave of amendments to "must-pass" government funding bills that would ban federal money from being used for gender transition procedures such as hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery.
"I remember a time when my own medical transition was the only thing going right in my life, and to have it taken away from me would have been existential at least," says Gillian Branstetter, a communications strategist for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)’s LGBTQ and HIV Project.
Meanwhile, West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, who recently left the Democratic Party to become an independent, bizarrely claimed to be unaware that he had voted for a similar pair of amendments – only for his office to reverse course within 24 hours and say he did support them.
Cis women take HRT to mitigate side effects of menopause, or even acne; children receive puberty blockers to prevent premature sexual development; and intersex people undergo genital reconstructive surgery, frequently without their consent in early childhood.
Last year seven out of 12 appropriations bills were amended in the House to restrict trans healthcare, according to a report by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) – part of a raft of anti-LGBT+ additions ranging from bans on flying Pride flags above federal properties and blocking the enforcement of non-discrimination laws.
In June, House Republicans amended this year’s iteration of the annual National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) to revoke coverage for trans healthcare under the Pentagon’s sprawling Tricare health insurance program, which serves around 9.6m current and former service members and dependents.
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