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Five Dems Crossed Party Lines To Strip Health Care From Trans Servicemembers And Their Families (www.erininthemorning.com)
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f you’re transgender, you can die for our country—but you cannot receive life-saving health care, access it for your transgender family members, or expect your family to be treated equally in schools run by the armed forces, should a new provision in the House NDAA become law.

This appears to be the politic of Democratic Representatives Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, of Texas; Donald G. Davis, of North Carolina; Shomari Figures and Terri A. Sewell, of Alabama. These lawmakers voted in favor of two proposals by South Carolina’s Nancy Mace, to amend the pending National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). If passed in the Senate, Amendment 255 would gut gender-affirming care for uniformed service members, retirees, and their family members around the world. Amendment 256 would in turn ban transgender girls from women’s sports in K-12 schools run by the military.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Most if not all have the full political and economic backing of the national party leadership, though.

For example, Cuellar was losing his primary to the badass progressive Jessica Cisneros when Jim Clyburn, Nancy Pelosi, and other DNC bigwigs flew in from other states to rally for him in person.

They ALWAYS back the most conservative Dems and that's no coincidence.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

For example, Cuellar was losing his primary to the badass progressive Jessica Cisneros when Jim Clyburn, Nancy Pelosi, and other DNC bigwigs flew in from other states to rally for him in person.

And the excuse was that the party protects incumbents. Which lasted for two years until party leadership did nothing to protect incumbents Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman from the primary challengers AIPAC bought.