In a troubling new development for transgender people, Senator Manchin appeared to double down on his anti-trans vote to espouse a Project 2025 policy to ban all federal funding for trans care.
Any trans person in the U.S. that is not gripped with a state of deep worry bordering on alarm right now, it must be because they have their head buried in sand.
The coming months and years are going to be very difficult. We got a clue this was coming when half of the states, in quick succession, banned best-practice GAC for minors in clear opposition to the recommendations of multiple medical organizations.
I just composed and send messages based on your article, Erin, to my two senators. Anyone reading this, please feel free to copy and paste to your own senators:
Please insure that the anti-trans provisions restricting transgender care for those in the military, recently added to the National Defense Authorization Act with help from Senator Manchin, are removed before passing the bill. One provision would bar the government from paying for transgender surgeries deemed medically necessary for transgender soldiers, while the other would bar TRICARE, the insurance service for U.S. military service members, from covering any gender-affirming care for those under 18. Both provisions would significantly impact transgender service members and their families, as obtaining care can be difficult for those enrolled in the military without federal support.
See, what we have here is a redneck problem. No way this is a major budget line item. It just part of the attack against the other. It's hatred being cultivated. I does matter who it is against. The smaller percentage of the population, the better. Bullies like to pick on the minority. Less risk.
I'm starting to feel like a Jew in Germany 1940’ era and this is the home of the free? I can't believe the hate pouring from everywhere against trans people and their care. I had to not get my right leg procedure due to a Christian nurse practitioner that kept misgendering me every other work was MA'AM and I'm post op gender and name legally changed and I have a beard. She also terrified me because she messed w my appointments and my after care. This is only the beginning. I'm scared. I can't go without my Testosterone. I'd rather die first. I think that's what these so called Christian Repubs want. They are out for blood especially after the Trump ear clipping. I'd wish they would care that much when elementary schools get shot up and poor children due from AKs. I never saw this coming not in a million years for AMERICA.
I did not see this particular day, but I saw something coming in 2016. It was a very evil & dark energy coming out of a guy they never suspected would win a Presidential election. Why did I see something? I'm Black, and they're doing a slow-burn type of genocide against us. Picking us off one at a time so as not to alert the country of the true insanity of racism. George Floyd showed everybody what was happening, but that died down and went back to business as usual. I was insanely worried, pissed-off, and upset in 2016 and expressed it to my endo doctor. I told him, "I can't go back. I'd rather die first," just like you. Now they're getting ready to unleash a monster of a "thing" in order to persecute a shit load of people. We're first in line and they're executing the Nazi playbook blow-by-blow. All in the name of power, control, and hatred.
Well said. I feel that way too. The comment that was made recently at their racist rallies about Christians just vote once because he's (Trump) going to fix it so they will never have to vote again is terrifying. The Repubsyalao have plans for massive so called Detention Centers at the border. This is all okay with them! Their plans are to place their undesirable people, basically anyone that's not white and straight and Christian into these detention centers. This will be massive suffering for Americans and immigrants on a major Nazi Germany Concentration camp scale of human pain and murder..... Thank God that Biden made way for us to have a chance to win w Kamala!
Yep, saw all that in Project 2025. I didn't have to buy the book; someone gave it to me. It's a nightmare of epic proportions. We cannot let him win. I'm beginning to think he'll lose in a landslide. So many people are fired up right now and they've pissed off a bunch of other white people. When that happens, we can be sure of a victory. I'm still preparing for the worst, though. They're trying to fuck with voting and are ready to call it fraud if he loses. We're in trouble, people, and the Christian Nationalists/White Supremacists are trying to gain a stronghold on our beloved country. His base isn't just cult members. White people who want to go back to the 1800's are in that game. Fuck those clowns!
I didn't serve my country to let Democracy go like this. I used to be ashamed to be a veteran. I didn't serve for people's freedom to hate me. Then I decided to hell with them. I might stick around ... I might not. I'm more of a patriot than those racists any day.
Something I wrote after Pres. Biden stepped out of the race:
I'm worried sick about this now, especially if Manchin is able to get a rider on for all government trans care, which would include the health insurance if federal employees like myself. I'm FORTUNATE that it would only affect my HRT needing to be out-of-pocket (and part of it already is, as I've had to take a very low dose of T since my bottom surgery), given that my HRT doc is also my PCP so the quarterly visits would still be covered under the ACA...
I wonder what would happen to Federal employees in states that require health insurance to cover trans care?
Forgot to mention that the cost to replace those in the military who are transgender would run into the tens millions of dollars not to mention that we are/were expensively trained and experienced and the loss would take years to replace particularly given the problems with recruiting people to join. As they say this is "cutting of the nose despite the face"
Manchin is just another bought and paid for politician with few morals. As for the amendments to the bill those Dems who supported voting it out of committee are simply cowards and probably view this as not hurting their chance of re-election given how small a minority we are and with the majority of their constituents at best ambivalent. This Republic is teetering on disaster this election and our ignorant politicians who are unable to think critically or have any courage are fiddling while it starts to burn. The amount of money spent influencing our politicians and the cost of elections is obscene. The blame is all around but especially Scotus which deemed the McCain-Feingold bipartisan bill unconstitutional which would have put into effect some controls and decreased the influence of the moneyed interests. Look at other countries around the world, they spend no where near the billions spent here. Horrifying to say the least.
Exactly what are the Democrat Senators doing? Are they TRAITORS to their own party platform, which calls for all prescribed healthcare must be provided for trans military active duty and Veterans?
Their abandonment of their Democrat platform and willingness to throw Trans military people under the bus, indicates that they haven’t even read their own party platform, or are willing to act like TRAITORS to their platform.
Yep, that's pretty much it. They're spineless cowards with no balls. I'm disgusted with the whole lot of them, but I'm still not willing to vote Red or not vote at all. Our numbers are so few that we've not been able to unite. Too much infighting amongst the veterans, and none with the military because they can't fight back. This is all imploding and I saw it coming.
Big surprise, the hardest shove towards the bus lane came from the most crooked, ass-backwards conservative sonofabitch who doesn't have an (R) after his name. He's leaving the Hill and has nothing left to lose, no career left to torch, so he'll just go right ahead and send himself off with a final fuck you to people who've given as much to this country as he's taken from it- but whose eyes he'll never have to stare into while he justifies himself, because he'll never have to answer for a single thing he's done. That's just not how life works for people like him. He'll sail off into the sunset on his yacht without a care in the world, while ordinary people drown in the chaos he's left in his wake.
What a disgusting, disgraceful excuse for a human being.
We need the names of the senators and which way they voted to hold them accountable . Where is there a list of which way the various senators voted in these measures.
Between the strong likelihood of an incoming GOP administration and Congress, and the SCOTUS decision in 2025, GAC for youth is on life support right now, and I expect it will be essentially unobtainable in virtually all of the country within 1-2 years, and maybe sooner. Parents with a trans child will have no option except seek care out of the country - and that’s assuming that they don’t find a way to make that illegal too.
GAC for adults will be targeted too, and is also highly at risk.
The only remaining question is if blue protective states can and will form a tight sanctuary against hostile federal policies. It will be an uphill battle because federal law normally overrides state law.
Right now, that party is rendered useless and will only split the vote in the WRONG direction. Get real. This isn't a movie; this is reality right here, right now.
A friend pointed out that Heritage Foundation, as a 501(c)(3), is not permitted to take any political stance. Something we have to be very careful about during PFLAG meetings. Maybe the IRS ought to be revoking their tax-exempt status right about now.
Oooooooooo, good point! Someone should alert the IRS. I guess they could say they're not taking on a political stance if they're creating a political stance. That got me thinking...
Any trans person in the U.S. that is not gripped with a state of deep worry bordering on alarm right now, it must be because they have their head buried in sand.
The coming months and years are going to be very difficult. We got a clue this was coming when half of the states, in quick succession, banned best-practice GAC for minors in clear opposition to the recommendations of multiple medical organizations.
I just composed and send messages based on your article, Erin, to my two senators. Anyone reading this, please feel free to copy and paste to your own senators:
Please insure that the anti-trans provisions restricting transgender care for those in the military, recently added to the National Defense Authorization Act with help from Senator Manchin, are removed before passing the bill. One provision would bar the government from paying for transgender surgeries deemed medically necessary for transgender soldiers, while the other would bar TRICARE, the insurance service for U.S. military service members, from covering any gender-affirming care for those under 18. Both provisions would significantly impact transgender service members and their families, as obtaining care can be difficult for those enrolled in the military without federal support.
See, what we have here is a redneck problem. No way this is a major budget line item. It just part of the attack against the other. It's hatred being cultivated. I does matter who it is against. The smaller percentage of the population, the better. Bullies like to pick on the minority. Less risk.
We better start working on DIY, huh 😢
It's looking like that's a real possibility :(
I'm starting to feel like a Jew in Germany 1940’ era and this is the home of the free? I can't believe the hate pouring from everywhere against trans people and their care. I had to not get my right leg procedure due to a Christian nurse practitioner that kept misgendering me every other work was MA'AM and I'm post op gender and name legally changed and I have a beard. She also terrified me because she messed w my appointments and my after care. This is only the beginning. I'm scared. I can't go without my Testosterone. I'd rather die first. I think that's what these so called Christian Repubs want. They are out for blood especially after the Trump ear clipping. I'd wish they would care that much when elementary schools get shot up and poor children due from AKs. I never saw this coming not in a million years for AMERICA.
I did not see this particular day, but I saw something coming in 2016. It was a very evil & dark energy coming out of a guy they never suspected would win a Presidential election. Why did I see something? I'm Black, and they're doing a slow-burn type of genocide against us. Picking us off one at a time so as not to alert the country of the true insanity of racism. George Floyd showed everybody what was happening, but that died down and went back to business as usual. I was insanely worried, pissed-off, and upset in 2016 and expressed it to my endo doctor. I told him, "I can't go back. I'd rather die first," just like you. Now they're getting ready to unleash a monster of a "thing" in order to persecute a shit load of people. We're first in line and they're executing the Nazi playbook blow-by-blow. All in the name of power, control, and hatred.
Well said. I feel that way too. The comment that was made recently at their racist rallies about Christians just vote once because he's (Trump) going to fix it so they will never have to vote again is terrifying. The Repubsyalao have plans for massive so called Detention Centers at the border. This is all okay with them! Their plans are to place their undesirable people, basically anyone that's not white and straight and Christian into these detention centers. This will be massive suffering for Americans and immigrants on a major Nazi Germany Concentration camp scale of human pain and murder..... Thank God that Biden made way for us to have a chance to win w Kamala!
Yep, saw all that in Project 2025. I didn't have to buy the book; someone gave it to me. It's a nightmare of epic proportions. We cannot let him win. I'm beginning to think he'll lose in a landslide. So many people are fired up right now and they've pissed off a bunch of other white people. When that happens, we can be sure of a victory. I'm still preparing for the worst, though. They're trying to fuck with voting and are ready to call it fraud if he loses. We're in trouble, people, and the Christian Nationalists/White Supremacists are trying to gain a stronghold on our beloved country. His base isn't just cult members. White people who want to go back to the 1800's are in that game. Fuck those clowns!
I didn't serve my country to let Democracy go like this. I used to be ashamed to be a veteran. I didn't serve for people's freedom to hate me. Then I decided to hell with them. I might stick around ... I might not. I'm more of a patriot than those racists any day.
Something I wrote after Pres. Biden stepped out of the race:
https://substack.com/@kingrayvet/note/c-63002316
Understood, overstood. Sigh
I'm worried sick about this now, especially if Manchin is able to get a rider on for all government trans care, which would include the health insurance if federal employees like myself. I'm FORTUNATE that it would only affect my HRT needing to be out-of-pocket (and part of it already is, as I've had to take a very low dose of T since my bottom surgery), given that my HRT doc is also my PCP so the quarterly visits would still be covered under the ACA...
I wonder what would happen to Federal employees in states that require health insurance to cover trans care?
Forgot to mention that the cost to replace those in the military who are transgender would run into the tens millions of dollars not to mention that we are/were expensively trained and experienced and the loss would take years to replace particularly given the problems with recruiting people to join. As they say this is "cutting of the nose despite the face"
True, but they didn't care about that before, and won't care now. As a veteran, I saw this in 2016 and it's even more ridiculous now.
Manchin is a snake so I'm not that surprised, but it's still disappointing.
Manchin is just another bought and paid for politician with few morals. As for the amendments to the bill those Dems who supported voting it out of committee are simply cowards and probably view this as not hurting their chance of re-election given how small a minority we are and with the majority of their constituents at best ambivalent. This Republic is teetering on disaster this election and our ignorant politicians who are unable to think critically or have any courage are fiddling while it starts to burn. The amount of money spent influencing our politicians and the cost of elections is obscene. The blame is all around but especially Scotus which deemed the McCain-Feingold bipartisan bill unconstitutional which would have put into effect some controls and decreased the influence of the moneyed interests. Look at other countries around the world, they spend no where near the billions spent here. Horrifying to say the least.
Exactly what are the Democrat Senators doing? Are they TRAITORS to their own party platform, which calls for all prescribed healthcare must be provided for trans military active duty and Veterans?
Their abandonment of their Democrat platform and willingness to throw Trans military people under the bus, indicates that they haven’t even read their own party platform, or are willing to act like TRAITORS to their platform.
Yep, that's pretty much it. They're spineless cowards with no balls. I'm disgusted with the whole lot of them, but I'm still not willing to vote Red or not vote at all. Our numbers are so few that we've not been able to unite. Too much infighting amongst the veterans, and none with the military because they can't fight back. This is all imploding and I saw it coming.
Big surprise, the hardest shove towards the bus lane came from the most crooked, ass-backwards conservative sonofabitch who doesn't have an (R) after his name. He's leaving the Hill and has nothing left to lose, no career left to torch, so he'll just go right ahead and send himself off with a final fuck you to people who've given as much to this country as he's taken from it- but whose eyes he'll never have to stare into while he justifies himself, because he'll never have to answer for a single thing he's done. That's just not how life works for people like him. He'll sail off into the sunset on his yacht without a care in the world, while ordinary people drown in the chaos he's left in his wake.
What a disgusting, disgraceful excuse for a human being.
We need the names of the senators and which way they voted to hold them accountable . Where is there a list of which way the various senators voted in these measures.
Between the strong likelihood of an incoming GOP administration and Congress, and the SCOTUS decision in 2025, GAC for youth is on life support right now, and I expect it will be essentially unobtainable in virtually all of the country within 1-2 years, and maybe sooner. Parents with a trans child will have no option except seek care out of the country - and that’s assuming that they don’t find a way to make that illegal too.
GAC for adults will be targeted too, and is also highly at risk.
The only remaining question is if blue protective states can and will form a tight sanctuary against hostile federal policies. It will be an uphill battle because federal law normally overrides state law.
Difficult times are coming.
Better to fall in a fight for our rights than to die in vain.
'"Until I see these measures implemented or until I die, I will continue this hunger strike," Bankova said.'
https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-trans-woman-bankova-hunger-strike-gender-recognition/32687879.html
Thanks for the alert. I emailed our MA Senator Ed Markey to urge him to block any bill with this rider.
The UNI-PARTY in action.
Vote Green 💚
Right now, that party is rendered useless and will only split the vote in the WRONG direction. Get real. This isn't a movie; this is reality right here, right now.
A friend pointed out that Heritage Foundation, as a 501(c)(3), is not permitted to take any political stance. Something we have to be very careful about during PFLAG meetings. Maybe the IRS ought to be revoking their tax-exempt status right about now.
Oooooooooo, good point! Someone should alert the IRS. I guess they could say they're not taking on a political stance if they're creating a political stance. That got me thinking...