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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.
Prior to the closure, the only other ways to get HRT in Ireland were DIY, or expensive private health clinics that issue EU-recognized prescriptions, but operate outside of Ireland itself.
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.
So, I went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's 30th Pride Parade in November...
This hearing shows that parental groups and tech lobbyists agree on the broad strokes of what children’s access to the internet should look like.
