Christine Lemmer-Webber
Trump administration banning trans coverage (hormones, surgery) for federal employees and families, mandates that conversion therapy be offered in their place https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-admin-bans-coverage-for-trans
That's horrible and affects a lot of people. I'm also worried that it's the tip off towards a greater application across the US medical system.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
This is all going according to plan. The Heritage Foundation outlined that they planned to do exactly these things. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24804857-project-2025/
> [...] the Secretary should proudly state that men and women are biological realities that are crucial to the advancement of life sciences and medical care and that married men and women are the ideal, natural family structure [...]
Christine Lemmer-Webber
More:
> Reissue a stronger transgender national coverage determination. CMS should repromulgate its 2016 decision that CMS could not issue a National Coverage Determination (NCD) regarding “gender reassignment surgery” for Medicare beneficiaries. In doing so, CMS should acknowledge the growing body of evidence that such interventions are dangerous and
acknowledge that there is insufficient scientific evidence to support such
coverage in state plans.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
And does this one look familiar? They're actually doing all this stuff.
> Reverse policies that allow transgender individuals to serve in the military. Gender dysphoria is incompatible with the demands of military service, and the use of public monies for transgender surgeries or to facilitate abortion for service members should be ended.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Not only that, Project 2025 explicitly conflates information about trans care with pornography and says people who share information about such should be *imprisoned*:
> Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender
ideology and sexualization of children, for instance [...] has no claim to First Amendment protection. [...] Their product
is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
In that same section, saying information about trans care is pornography, it says:
> Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should
be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed
as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
The document is very explicit about rolling back trans health care *in general*:
> [...] lack of evidence for so-called gender-affirming care; and physical and emotional
damage following cross-sex treatments, especially on children. The OASH should
withdraw all recommendations of and support for cross-sex medical interventions
and “gender-affirming care.”
Christine Lemmer-Webber
If you're saying "well the solution is to not be in the military or federal government", you're missing it.
They're working to ban trans health care *for. everyone.* Federal workers are the easiest category to *remove* care from, as a test case.
The goal is to eliminate trans people from public life.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
The near term goals are to eliminate trans care. The goals right out from there are: face detransition or incarceration.
I'm not saying this can't be fought against, I'm trying to say: those are the explicit goals. And they are *making progress*.
DonatellaInCali
I got really upset Saturday after we left an event in Kent, OH that was super fun. As I got ready to back the car out of the parking I saw that the steps in front of me had those memorial or dedication bricks in them
The one right in front of me said
In memory of
Leela Alcorn
11/15/97 - 12/28/14
Killed in a hate crime
This breaks me. A vibrant child killed by conversion therapy
Leelah Alcorn - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leelah_Alcorn
Lunaphied
@cwebber it's actually possibly even worse. The director actually instructs carriers of federal health plans to not cover trans healthcare. This means it's very possible that unrelated private plans run by the same insurance companies will be effected
Jess👾
@cwebber And like, federal government workers include(d) everything from scientists to tax collectors to people who pay out Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security to engineers to astronauts.
Karin!
@cwebber I have been near tears at this piece of news specifically today. It's weird with all the horrible stuff happening just which things get to me. But yeah, it's real bad
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