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.
And Democrats play along. That’s complicity 101.
Your question is based on the incorrect assumption that fascists are happy when they have achieved the sacrifice of one group. Who do you choose to sacrifice next? Because there will be a next. The trans people you consider expendable? When Republicans move on to the next entry on their “then they came for” list, there is one fewer entry between you and being the group Democrats are willing to jettison to save the dwindling whole.
I know why you aren’t. In my case, this happened yesterday. But hey, anyone who describes a problem has to singlehandedly solve it as it happens, or nothing they say is valid.
Yup. Democrats shoveling vulnerable populations into the maw in an effort they know to be in vain to placate implacable fascists.
Democrats are culpable for their complicity. You just want no accountability as your party turns quisling.
They’re on the wrong side of a lot of issues you don’t consider important too.
It’s not about making fascists “happy”, and no, I have no delusions on that account, and I don’t consider anyone expendable. But, if we went into the next administration without a defense funding bill, Republicans would still get what they did, and have the chance to attach anything else they wanted as well. The choice the Democrats had was this, or worse than this, so Biden signed.
Going into the next administration, Democrats will have zero power to be complicit in anything. The people “shoveling vulnerable populations into the maw” will be Republicans - the same people that do it today.
Wow, you have no fucking clue how I feel about holding Democrats accountable. I just hold them accountable for the things they actually have power over. I’ve ripped Harris to shreds over her cowardly hiding from trans issues in the campaign, and Biden before that. I’ve been advocating for overthrowing the Democratic establishment for 30 years.
They will have the ability to pass anything they want as a standalone bill. That’s no reason for Democrats to be complicit now. This is the last word trans people will get from Democrats for a long time.
Worse than this is already inevitable. Democrats could have chosen to not do this. And let’s not pretend that this was reluctant, either. Not with the sheer numbers of Democratic votes this got. And this is after a campaign season during which Democrats ran ads with Republican anti-trans bigotry.
So they’re taking advantage of the opportunity now.
You’ve been making excuses for them throwing trans people under the bus here.
And their hands are always conveniently tied.