The House of Representatives has approved a defense spending bill that includes a provision denying insurance coverage for gender-affirming care for transgender children of service members.
The House passed a massive defense bill that includes a ban on gender-affirming care for children of servicemembers despite opposition from Democrats. https://t.co/yGvd6j7H8O
— NBC Out (@NBCOUT) December 12, 2024
From the New York Times:
Republicans banded together to support the annual defense measure, which included a 14.5 percent pay raise for junior enlisted service members.
But many Democrats refused to back the normally bipartisan legislation, chiding the G.O.P. for including the limitation on transgender care, which they argued was discriminatory and politically motivated.
The provision in question would bar TRICARE, the military’s health care plan, from covering “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization” for children under 18.
The treatment referred to here is primarily prescribed hormones, whose effects disappear if usage stops. They don’t permanently “sterilize” kids. And by the way, those same hormones will be available to cisgender teens who may need them. For instance, if a teenage boy isn’t maturing as considered “normal” then doctors will be allowed to prescribe the same hormones being blocked to trans kids. This is the first time since the ‘Defense of Marriage Act’ passed almost 30 years ago that an anti-LGBTQ+ policy been enshrined into federal law.
NEW: Anti-equality House leaders passed a bill to STRIP HEALTH CARE FROM MILITARY FAMILIES.
These families sacrifice so much. To take away health care from servicemembers’ trans kids isn’t just wrong, it undermines military readiness. Text VOTENO to 472472 to tell your Senators to REJECT the NDAA. [image or embed] — Human Rights Campaign (@hrc.org) December 11, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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