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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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[–] cqst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 hours ago

This is the bill in question: H.R 5009

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5009

I implore anyone defending Biden for this as him having to make a "tough decision" to review the roll calls for the votes on this bill.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00325.htm

40 Democratic senators voted yes.

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024500

81 Democratic represenatives voted yes.

This anti-trans bill was passed with support from the Democrats. The bourgeoisie political parties of the United States will never protect your human rights, especially when dollars for the military are on the line.

[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 19 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

we should swap the pardon power for line item veto

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (13 children)

we should swap the pardon power for line item veto

Yeah. Would be neat watching Democrats make excuses for why only Republicans could use it.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

You'll have to get 60 votes to make it happen. I'm game, honestly, nobody should be above the law, and precisely for that reason no Republican would ever vote for this.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 27 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Further cementing both parties as part and parcel to the problems in America.

One wrecks shop, the other apologizes and "hopes" they don't wreck it more, really really with sugar on top, BLM, 💜💜

I'm not sure what I'm insulted by more, the fascists or the pandering corporate Democrat liars pretending we're all best friends.

Neither speak for our country. We, the workers, the toilers, the sticks that churn this economy should be the ones speaking for it, not these thieves and grifters.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

A big part of the issue is they need 60 votes on budgets, constitutional amendments, court decision reversals, and removal from court/congress/presidency.

So either you have bipartisanship between moderates and literally satan to cover 99.9% of troops families, or you have the entire government collapse leaving every single troops family without coverage.

The only way out is to give the progressive party 60 votes, but every election cycle we stray further away from that.

Although there is also a way for 34 states to come together and force a constitutional change, but idk if that has ever once happened in all of US History?

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

What about flipping the script and accusing the Republicans on every avenue that they want the troops to go without coverage, unless they get their bigotry in it too?

Why not accuse them of wanting to deny coverage to all these troops?

The reality is that the Dems are fine with this and never cared about Trans rights past identifying it as relevant to get votes with progressives. Now as it has served its usefullness to them, they discard Trans people, like they will discard other LGBT, ethnic and religious minorities...

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Because the election was a month ago and a new congress is about to take over immediately after a recess, at which point Trump will be entering office. Either a bipartisan bill passes now or a conservative one passes after January.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So what is the difference between a bipartisan anti-trans bill and a republican anti-trans bill, if both bills are designed by the Republicans?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Several Republican Amendments were removed from the final version of the bill, including blocking Palestinian Refugees, defunding the Pier in Palestine used to ship necessary aid in, stopping any military academy from engaging in Critical Race Theory, blocking reproductive care reimbursement for military, among many other things.

If you want to read up on it, heres a good SUMMARY

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

God when will people stop falling for this crap, this is exactly the culture war repubs are waging. Half of them don't even give a crap about shitting on LGBTQ+, what they care about is shitting on the Dems so R's can stay in power. They put the poison pill in a bill that Biden has no choice but to sign, JUST TO GET HEADLINES LIKE THIS, so that progressives will blame Biden and the democrats instead of the magats. And you fall for it every time. Sure, sometimes you also blame the R's for actually doing the bad things, but you always blame democrats when they aren't able to stop R's from doing the bad things. You all might hate the military but we kind of need one and if we just shut it down we're leaving ourselves vulnerable. What you are doing by blaming Biden for this is like saying yeah what the rapist did was wrong but she didn't fight him off hard enough, she must have wanted it. smh

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 6 points 3 hours ago

Why didnt the Democrats block this bill and accuse the Republicans of trying to abuse it to pass their bigotry, rather putting millions of people well being on the line?

If you always play the bad game instead of standing up from the table and calling it out, it is because you do like playing the game and you are fine with the consequences.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

They put the poison pill in a bill that Biden has no choice but to sign

He could have refused to sign. But that might have violated one of the precious norms that Democrats care more about than trans people.

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