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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson departs from a news conference with House Republican Caucus leadership at the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C.Republican lawmakers have snuck a provision into a defense spending measure that would restrict what types of care transgender children of military members can receive, inserting the language into the bill at the last minute after having negotiated a previous version of the bill with Democrats.
“Blanketly denying health care to people who clearly need it, just because of a biased notion against transgender people, is wrong,”A coalition of LGBTQ rights groups, including Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, and others, also spoke out against the provision,that its terms were “a betrayal of the promise to our military families and an unnecessary threat to our national security.”
“It’s not even 2025 yet and we are already close to passing the first gender-affirming care ban on a national level,” Chapman said in a statement to. “In the coming months, I expect these attacks to increase significantly, as Republicans take control of the federal government, with many of them passing. This is just the beginning.”If you feel rage, despondency, confusion and deep fear today, you are not alone. We’re feeling it too. We are heartsick.
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