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Both conservative parties voted for the anti-trans bill you keep defending. It can be both bipartisan and conservative. That's what bipartisan has implied for at least a decade.
Its a really bad look to desperately try to remove as much context as possible.
It's a really bad look to throw vulnerable minorities under the bus.
And the Republicans should stop doing that, 100%.
And Democrats shouldn't have overwhelmingly voted with them. If this came down to all Republicans and a couple Manchins, that would be one thing. But it didn't.
Democrats didn't add this to the defence bill. Democrats are compromising now after fighting these changes for a year so that the next even more conservative congress, voted in by people like you, in a month doesn't sign something far far far far worse, with actual death tolls and war crimes as a result.
Go read some of the failed Republican Amendments to the 2024 NDAA.
They didn't have to show overwhelming support for it, either. But since they agree with you that trans people are expendable, they did.
If those trans kids break a bone or get sick they get covered, so clearly I care more about them than you who wants them to get no coverage.
Know what happens when trans kids don't get the treatment that you and both parties don't want them to have? Know what happens when they can't get access to puberty blockers? Know what happens when their skeletons begin to ossify into a form abhorrent to them?
Some of them commit suicide.
I'd say you don't care, but I have no doubt whatsoever that dead trans kids are your preferred outcome.
Democrats want them to have that treatment, but you and one party would rather shutdown an entire sector of the government than give it to them, taking away their general medical coverage as well.
They just voted to deny it.