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U.S. Senate passes defense bill that bars gender-affirming care for service members’ kids
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The roll call for the vote (linked in the summary) is embarrassing for the senate Democrats. This is well beyond a few moderates dismissing the anti-trans measures as being unimportant and carried through to the core of the party and even some progressive senators. And it needed 60 votes to pass so it wasn't a foregone conclusion. The amendment to remove the provision didn't even receive a vote.
The Democrats who voted against:
The Democratic party is a right wing party
Both parties owned by the rich
Nice job, Washington state... aren't we supposed to be progressive or something? Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell are both corpo sellout nightmares.
I'm in Hawaii, usually Hirono is pretty reliable and Schatz is the "usually good but sometimes bad" camp. And Case is just reliably as bad as he can be without being fully mask off. I really wish someone would challenge him that isn't a "who the hell is that", but to be honest we don't have any good state-level politicians that would fit the bill.
Glad to see my Merkley and Wyden remaining based as always
Massachusetts and Oregon are the only states that can just be happy with good senate representation. I suppose Wisconsinites probably didn't expect their Republican senator to do anything good too, but that's a larger problem.
It would be if they weren't deliberately sending a message to trans people that they consider them expendable.