Posted on 07/13/2017 8:35:36 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Update 8:20PM EST: This evening the House of Representatives voted 209 to 214 to defeat the amendment denying the Pentagon funds for "sex change" surgeries.
Sarah McBride, spokesperson for the LGBT lobby group Human Rights Campaign, reported, "If only three Members of Congress had voted yes instead [i.e., FOR the measure denying taxpayer funding to the Pentagon for transsexual "sex reassignment surgeries"], this dangerous and discriminatory anti-transgender amendment would have passed."
More than 20 Republicans joined the Democrats in voting to defeat the measure. Pro-life Catholic Illinois Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski, who is pro-life, also voted on the side of the LGBT lobby to defeat the amendment.
July 13, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Missouri Republican Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler’s amendment to deny the Pentagon taxpayer funds for transsexual “sex reassignment surgeries” has advanced for consideration to the full House of Representatives.
Hartzler’s amendment to the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) follows another that she withdrew last week targeting the Obama-imposed policy allowing gender-confused “transgender” individuals to serve openly in the U.S. military.
The new amendment “would make it so ‘funds available to the Department of Defense may not be used to provide medical treatment (other than mental health treatment) related to gender transition to a person entitled to medical care,’” The Hill reported.
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Boy, it’s a good thing the GOP controls Congress! I am so proud of our Republican Congresscritters being Dem lite and cowering to left-wing groups and the media.
The mind reels ...
If the amendment had passed these transsexuals could still have had their reassignment surgeries — except we would not have had to pay for it.
In these types of issues it is always the same — it is not enough that they can do what they want — they insist that WE pay for it.
I hope all 20 pubbies who voted against the ban are all primaried out of office.
Well, that was confusing. If I read it right, the good guys lost , and this unique perversion is still military policy?
No one should be surprised by what the Republican Controlled Congress did. Especially those who have watched the Republicans operate over the years
Saw Rep Louie Gohmert on Lou Dobb’s, earlier tonight. He was absolutely disgusted about this. Where is the outrage, from other Pubbies?
I’m confused too.
They stopped the Vietnam War by refusing to pay the portion of the federal tax on their telephone bills that supported the war. Threw the phone companies into chaos. Next would have been the income tax.
We’re going to have to start using some of those tactics.
Twenty republicans just came out of the closet.
Who are they?
Which Republicans voted to kill the ban?
Why can’t DoD just reverse the decision?
Exactly! “Mentally ill and no insurance for your sex change? Free M/F wardrobe included, sign up here!”
Because no one in the DoD wants to face the public backlash it would cause? Yeah that’s pretty grim but we are talking about tax payer money to chop up folks who are mentally ill so they can then supposedly serve our country to the best of their ability.
Come on, that it is even a policy in the first place should tell everyone how far down the cultural slope we really are. I can’t see it turning around.
Freegards
Everyone of these reps voting against the ban need to be primaried.
Even Massachusetts voted against paying for a sex change operation for a psycho that is serving life for murder-——and Republicans voted to allow it for the military?
Boggles the mind.
What the hell is wrong with these people.I swear they are all bent.
So.... in the United States, the government is having the military spend our tax money on cutting off the penises of our male soldiers ?
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