The military would not be able to pay for surgeries for transgender troops under the Senate's version of the must-pass annual defense policy bill, legislative text released Monday evening revealed.
  • Pronell@lemmy.world
    123·
    4 months ago

    Fuck you, Manchin. Burn in the deepest pit of whatever hell you believe in. You know you’ve earned it.

    • audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1410·
      4 months ago

      It’s not just Manchin that voted for it, other Democrats did too.

      Heads up for those that follow it (aka trans folks), Biden took a turn on trans rights as well. He now supports bans on “gender affirming surgeries for trans kids”. Which is where Republicans started their crusade to try to ban all gender-affirming care for trans folks. (Yes, I know that slippery slope isn’t a valid argument, but in this case they actually started there and what they are now advocating for).

      And people wonder why so many gender non-conforming folks are refusing to vote for Biden.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        262·
        4 months ago

        1. We all know that “gender affirming surgeries” aren’t being performed on minors. Publicly being against something that doesn’t happen seems more like a calculated way to get support from morons low-information voters.

        2. Like literally everyone who isn’t a rich white Christian man, trans lives will get significantly worse under Trump. Rational self-interest should be reason enough to vote for Biden.

          • Billiam@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 months ago

            Obviously in this context we’re talking about gender affirming surgeries for trans children, not Aughbreylynn’s dad buying her bolt-ons for her 16th birthday.

        • audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          4 months ago

          They are being performed in very low numbers (like single digits in the country, and in very extreme cases). But it shouldn’t matter, no part of government should be interfering in medical decisions, even if they’re very rare. Ever. The Republicans in our state started with that and trans women in sports, and ended with proposing constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. They’ve already banned trans health care for minors and started banning books in schools. And they’ve proposed banning all gender affirming care in the state and ran out of time.

          Rational self interest is what made me vote for Hillary and Biden the first time. I’m in a deep red state, my state’s electoral college votes are going to Trump without a doubt. I’ll be voting Democrat down ticket, because in my state the national elections won’t matter. It’s the state banning gender affirming care, banning abortions, privatizing schools, etc. And Democrats can’t stop it at the state level (Republicans have supermajorities in both legislatures and will hold the governorship for at least 2 more years), and at the national level they don’t seem to try to care to try to stop it either. If I had resources, I would have already left the country. Many of my friends have.

          So my vote isn’t going to count either way, it might as well try to serve as a wake up call to the Democrats that they have to be more than “not really fascist” to win an election.

      • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
        131·
        4 months ago

        And people wonder why so many gender non-conforming folks are refusing to vote for Biden.

        I don’t wonder that, because we’re not refusing to vote for Biden. Except for the suicidal trans doomers who are willing to throw their lives away making a political statement. Which is absolutely tragic, but also fuck them for risking all our lives too.

        • SeducingCamel@lemm.ee
          34·
          4 months ago

          It’ll be fun revisiting this if Biden somehow wins and project 2025 policies still get implemented. Then it’ll be on to the next issue we totally have to vote blue to stop

          • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
            111·
            4 months ago

            Oh they certainly have the right to vote for fascism. And I have the right to call them assholes about it. That’s the democratic process in action. Democracy isn’t when your fascist ideas are never challenged, that’s fascism.

              • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
                31·
                4 months ago

                I didn’t do that, the DNC did that. I may be the ally of the DNC today, but my affections are fickle. I will aid the DNC when and only when it suits my goals. One day I will call Biden a corrupt fascist puppet, and the next I will defend him from the same accusations. The difference is that I will attack him when there’s a chance to get someone better on the blue side of the vote, and I’ll defend him when the candidates are set and he’s the only one who can defeat Trump. It is all a utilitarian calculation to me. I am not so privileged as to bring feelings into my decision about who to vote for. There are more important things at stake than how I feel.

                • audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  21·
                  4 months ago

                  Oh, I don’t disagree with you. But understand that sitting in a place where a national election has an effect on you is a privilege. Project 2025 is already becoming a reality in my state, and there’s nothing that’s going to stop it. Trump, Biden, doesn’t matter to me. I’m gonna sound like a doomer, but queer people in my state like me are already fucked. And Democrats at the state level can’t do anything because Republicans have supermajorities in both legislative houses and they hold the governorship. My state will go for Trump. My vote for president will not matter. It’s gonna be third party (probably socialist). Don’t tell me I “have to vote for Biden”, I’ve made my calculation too.

  • Corvidae@lemmy.world
    19·
    4 months ago

    I’d really like to see them pass some restrictions on religious proselytizing. I know they won’t 'cause 1st Amendment, but that’s what’s driving the anti-trans and anti-LGBT policies.

  • Technological_Elite@lemmy.one
    16·
    4 months ago

    Edit: Sorry for any spelling mistakes or grammar errors, I wrote this while tired, which causes me blurry vision.

    It’s Transphobia, that’s what it is, all of it. There’s no logical reason to FIRST target this as a budget cut, like wtf.

    Within the past week or two, I’ve basically have been accepting the fact that I’m transgender, after literal years of questioning. It’s shit like this that makes me want to closet myself back in. Why is it not normal for people to just simply have respect (human decency!) For people’s varying sexualities and gender identities. It’s not hurting anyone.

    It may be easily seen as entirely sexual, but it’s really not, because that’s really correlated to love, features of your body, etc. But there so much more to it than that. All of this is normal for human beings to do, it’s only been thought of being normalized in recent years, and people are just now finding comfort in being open about it.

    I just want everyone to be able to (within reason) be comfortable, confident, and be open about who they love, what they feel about themselves, how they want to express themselves. And I don’t mean making entire personalities about it (I think some of us have to be more involved about it, because we have to fight to exist), but not making or going out of your way to discomfort them.

    Let us live, in peace, please. We don’t want to hurt anybody.

  • Sarmyth@lemmy.world
    61·
    4 months ago

    End religious tax exemptions. At this point, they can’t stop themselves from crossing the line. Just accept the reality they are going to be political and tax them like any other business.

  • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Lol WHY do they care so much about genitals that aren’t theirs, and that they’ll never see anyway? Aren’t all these people monogamous and married?