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.

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    1 day 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.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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      22 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”