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The new rules will effectively end transition care for trans kids and likely have a chilling effect on transition care for trans adults, all via executive rulemaking through the threat of a total loss of funding.
The bill is the most consequential attack of trans rights in the 21st century,
The text of the bill, including proposed amendments, makes acting to facilitate social and medical transition legally the same category as felony fraud, making the affirmation of transgender youth punishable by incarceration and loss of voting rights. It will be voted on tomorrow, Dec. 17.
In terms of Capitol Hill politics, the passage of this bill is a foregone conclusion. There is no will from the Senate to put the funding of the military on hold to prevent discrimination of trans people.
SEGM has spent almost $1.5 million dollars and received nearly $2 million to push anti-trans hate into "scientific" legitimacy and "evidenced based" objectivity.
The ban was attached to a plan to defund subsidies for health insurance plans bought through the public market.
The US federal government is poised to codify that trans lives are inherently wasteful and effectively end transition for most people across the entire United States.
The bill would be both the first federal trans sports ban, and also codify sex as only referring to how people were born.
