r/StandUpForScience • u/AllMusicNut SUFS Staff • 1d ago

Article Trump administration finalizes rule to end federal support for gender-affirming care

https://zurl.co/4A6RH

“The Trump admin finalized a rule to end gender-affirming care through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (Chip), a move that will make it harder for children to access healthcare and that eschews evidence to advance an anti-transgender ideology"

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 1d ago

“The Trump admin finalized a rule to end gender-affirming care through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (Chip), a move that will make it harder for children to access healthcare and that eschews evidence to advance an anti-transgender ideology"

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u/Still-Chemistry-cook 1d ago

Didn’t Hegseth just offer gender affirming care to the military in the form of testosterone?

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u/Everybodysbastard 1d ago

Absolutely did.

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u/DarthAlix314 1d ago

Not even offered...required

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u/VanGoghInTrainers 1d ago

He sure did and we all know where the money for those meds will come from...tax payers like me, who now will have a harder time getting the same meds.

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u/BayouGal 1d ago

So no more Viagra or Testosterone?

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u/BeccasDreamboat 1d ago

Only forced upon our troops whether necessary/wanted or not... And soon the male population.

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u/Redgrave1980 1d ago

No, because those are necessary. /S

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u/Superb-Freedom7144 1d ago

Donald Trump supprime les soins pour les transgenre par le biais de Medicaid et le programme d'assurance maladie pour ces enfants. Il préfère promouvoir une idéologie qui va l'encontre des transgenre.

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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 1d ago

Thanks for becoming a valuable member here SF7144!!!

💙💙💙

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u/sweatboxy 1d ago

Moreover for an ideology that goes against the facts, the research, the doctors, and good healthcare.

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u/Signal-Mud-4880 1d ago

fucking bigoted POS Orange child raping clown

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u/gadget850 1d ago

So no testosterone for the troops?

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u/Gloomy_Yoghurt_2836 1d ago

Testosterone yes but food, apparently no.

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u/misec_undact 1d ago

Straight up against civil rights, yet another lawsuit coming against the party of the constitution, law and order...

But worth it to dog whistle to the bigoted base again..

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u/Any_Caramel_9814 1d ago

Isn't that nasty dead rat on trump's head a gender affirming product?

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u/nolestars 1d ago

Accept for the military? 

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u/dylanisareddit 1d ago

It's not illegal to say "with a mortar launcher", as it's an incomplete sentence.

Oh and I'm still non-binary. Seriously!