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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
Federal employees to be fully barred from gender affirming care coverage, starting next year https://theneedlenews.com/2026/05/federal-employees-to-be-fully-barred-from-gender-affirming-care-coverage-starting-next-year/
It’s not just kids: Trump’s crackdown on trans healthcare extends into adulthood https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-transgender-healthcare-gender-veterans-federal-employees-rcna346425
DOJ's fight against trans medical care in prison is a fight to erase trans people in the law https://www.lawdork.com/p/dojs-fight-against-trans-medical
From that last one:
> In its briefing, DOJ went on to argue that “the 2026 Policy does not, in the words of Skrmetti, ‘prohibit conduct for one sex that it permits for the other’ but instead turns on ‘the underlying medical concern the treatment is intended to address,’ i.e., gender dysphoria.”
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> Echoing, while expanding, Chief Justice John Roberts’s disingenuous majority opinion from Skrmetti, DOJ now has made clear that it views — and plans to use — Skrmetti as a free-for-all to go after trans people of all ages by denying that, so far as the law is concerned, trans people exist at all.