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.
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.