U.S. Senate passes defense bill that bars gender-affirming care for service members’ kids
U.S. Senate passes defense bill that bars gender-affirming care for service members’ kids
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday cleared a national defense authorization bill celebrated for troop pay raises but condemned by Democrats for targeting transgender children in military families, sending the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk.
Senators voted 83-12, with five not voting, to approve the $884.9 billion National Defense Authorization Act that received bipartisan praise for the pay bump, upgrades to military housing and investments in artificial intelligence and other advanced technology.
But the annual legislation drew ire this year from Democrats for a provision banning the military’s health program from covering certain treatments for youth experiencing gender dysphoria, defined by doctors as the mismatch between a person’s sex assigned at birth and the gender they experience in everyday life.
All Democrats present for the Dec. 11 U.S. House vote opposed the defense package, which passed along party lines under the Republican majority.
The White House has not released its position on the bill, as it generally does with legislation ready for the president’s signature.
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We prevented like 10 teenagers from being able to talk to their doctors about their gender dysphoria. Really making America great again, guys /s
Why can't doctors just be allowed to do their jobs? And patients just be allowed to tell their doctors what is going on with them?
Tricare has around 2 million children on it. Around 1% of the population is trans, so that's 20k trans kids receiving healthcare under Tricare. Considering the untreated trans suicide rate is around 40%, if even a quarter of that succeed...
Well, I'm sure those 2,000 child corpses will be worth it in the end. What's a few thousand dead kids in the grand scheme of thing, eh?
These people are child murderers. They better hope there is no Hell, because if there is, they each assuredly secured their place there.
It's not even just preventing the teenagers from deciding on their own, even with fully supportive parents this prevents coverage. Government knows best from the party of "small government", and supported by the majority of the party nominally defending the victims. While that party still controls the senate!
*dysphoria
Fixed. Thank you!