Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Coming At Us Again!

Another day, another anti-trans bill... this one is to cut healthcare for those of us on Medicaid.
Reps. Dan Crenshaw & Marjorie Taylor Greene have tailored their bill to make it much easier to pass.
LGBTQ Nation
By Alex Bollinger
January 24, 2025


Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) have introduced a bill to ban Medicaid from covering all gender-affirming care for transgender minors, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery, The Center Square reports. Republicans are claiming that the bill should be seen as a narrow fiscal matter, meaning that it could bypass the Senate filibuster and become law more easily.

“Using Medicaid funds for unproven and irreversible procedures on minors is not only medically irresponsible but also a betrayal of public trust,” Crenshaw said in a statement after filing the “Do No Harm in Medicaid Act.” “This bill ensures that Medicaid’s limited resources are used only for evidence-based, medically necessary care.”
The Republicans are a bunch of weasel lacking any morality or humanity. They will do anything to rig the system to get power and to keep in power.
Moreover, what Medicaid covers is determined by states in accordance with federal guidelines. Crenshaw didn’t explain why so many states are covering gender-affirming if there really is no evidence to support its efficacy or why federal intervention would be needed to specifically prohibit these treatments and only for a subset of people seeking them.
All come on now we all know why the Republicans are doing this... it is to satisfied their far-right Christians voters

And don't believe them when they say that it is "to protect the children!
Donald Trump could sign it into law. He promised his followers an end to federal support for gender-affirming care “at any age” and campaigned heavily on opposition to government funding for gender-affirming care in prisons.

The bill is, effectively, a narrower version of Rep. Greene’s “Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” which she has filed in the past two sessions of Congress and repeatedly advocated for over the last several years. That bill would ban transgender health care for minors entirely, make it harder for transgender adults to get such health care, and ban medical schools from teaching about it.
The Republicans are trying to ban all things LGBTQ+ and criminalize us like it was back in the 1950s. They want to make the United States into a Christian Nation but  not any Christian Nation only far-right Christians.

They want to ban:
  • Abortions. ✓
  • Define gender as only male and female. ✓
  • Trans healthcare for children ✓
  • Trans healthcare for adults.
  • Ban trans people from the military ✓
  • Marriage equality.
  • Divorce
  • "Birthright Citizenship." ✓
  • Ban contraceptive (In process)
And the lists keeps on getting longer!

They are the Christian Taliban. 



Updated: 1/29 @ 3:30PM

On the Project 2025 hit list is banning birth control pills!
Democracy Docket
By Susan Rinkunas
January 27, 2025


With Donald Trump back in the White House, access to contraception is, sadly, not something that people can bank on anymore — whether they know it or not. This issue didn’t get much airtime during the chaotic 2024 campaign, but birth control has been in conservatives’ crosshairs for years. And while Trump’s administration will undoubtedly attack it, he’ll likely have additional help from his appointees to the Supreme Court.

On Jan. 10, the justices agreed to hear a case, Braidwood v. Becerra, that threatens the Affordable Care Act’s insurance coverage of preventive care. A group of conservative Texas employers who object to paying for birth control and pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV argue that the Affordable Care Act can’t require preventive services be covered without costs like copays because the panels that determine coverage are unconstitutional. Their lawyer is Jonathan Mitchell, the same right-wing attorney and former Justice Antonin Scalia clerk who wrote the Texas bounty-hunter abortion ban, S.B. 8.

A ruling for the plaintiffs could mean employers and insurers reimposing copays and deductibles, or denying birth control coverage entirely, with patients on the hook for the full price. The end of no-cost coverage requirements would ultimately result in fewer people being able to afford the contraceptive method of their choice, including IUDs. The devices alone cost hundreds of dollars, then there’s the price of the office visit for insertion. Yes, an over-the-counter birth control pill hit stores in 2024, but people deserve options and it’s not affordable for everyone.
This is right out of Project 2025 playbook, what denied knowing about!
The Heritage Foundation-written playbook also recommends kicking trusted medical orgs off the advisory committee that determines what preventive care is covered, then having the group redo all of its existing recommendations, including on birth control. Such a revision process could affect other birth control methods beyond the morning-after pill: Religious conservatives have been trying to end mandated coverage of intrauterine devices, which they also believe cause abortions. The Supreme Court allowed some exceptions in the 2014 Hobby Lobby case, where the plaintiffs specifically opposed paying for their employees’ IUDs.
Welcome to the Christian Nation brought to you by the Republican Party!

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