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Erin in the Morning: House HHS Appropriations Bill Would Devastate Trans Adult Healthcare Nationwide [1]

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Date: 2025-09-09

Erin in the Morning: House HHS Appropriations Bill would Gut Trans Healthcare Nationwide

They’re going for it, folks. They want us gone. It was never about protecting children, and any Democrat who thought it was ever about fairness in sports needs to wake up and pay attention, because you fell for it. You were the marks, and you got suckered, and now we’re here.

I tried you warn you that America was a Nazi bar now, and that meant that it didn’t matter what the squishy centrists wanted or cared about until the Nazis were gone. This is why. You want ICE out of the streets? You need the centrists out there yelling at ICE too. You want trans people to stop complaining we’re constantly under assault? You need the centrists out there telling the fash to lay off. There is no longer time to make peace with the people who think “but they might have a point.” Your feelings will be hurt if you lose to a trans woman in a race; I will be dead — unable to work, get healthcare, or provide for my family — if they get their way. We are not the same.

Now the war is here. They will not stop until either we get the Nazis who think they have a right to decide what we do with our body out of our government or they will find a way to remove us.

First, regardless of whether you’re in a red state or a blue state, I need to you to call your representatives and tell them to not let this provision through.

Next, if you’re in a blue state, I need you to start telling your reps to SHUT THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN. We are in an authoritarian crisis. The Democratic Party at every level needs to pull the gears of government to a screeching halt. You want a message? Here’s your message: “Donald Trump has weaponized the government against the people. He has unconstitutionally declared war on the people of DC, LA, and Chicago. He has authorized the extrajudicial murder of foreign nationals and claimed the right to do it again. He has enabled genocide in Gaza. He has weaponized the government against the trans community. And he has done it all to distract you from his plundering of the government coffers and his personal enrichment at your expense. He is a traitor to the country, and we will no longer lend our moral authority to his actions.”

Of course, it would help if you were to stop voting Blue No Matter Who so those crimes mattered and we had any moral authority from which to make such an argument, but I bet if we tried e could make that stick. A lot of people are looking for moral leadership right now, because the Republicans have long sold us — falsely — on the idea that they held a monopoly on the morals argument, and the Democrats have largely ceded that platform to them rather than try to figure out how to have any kind of a spine. Well, folks, now’s when you need it. I need you to find it.

Blue No Matter Who is no longer good enough. It never was, it can no longer be. We have to have a moral center on the left. It shouldn’t be a hard thing for any politician to say “genocide is bad” and “killing people through erasure and neglect is bad.” and from the moment 47 issued a royal proclamation decreeing the government would no longer see trans people the whole of the Democratic party should have been in lockstep shutting down the government in moral disgust that anyone should ever have thought that was okay. But you didn’t, and we didn’t, and we’re here now.

Every bill this government puts forward is in some fashion an attempt to remake the tools of power to hurt people they don’t like. There is no good law any more. There is no safe authoritarian remodeling of the halls of power. This government should’ve been shut down on January 7, but Schumer had no spine then and he still hasn’t found it now, and the party cannot seem to figure out how to tell him that he’s no longer welcome in his seat. We are going to sternly-worded-letter and hand-wring our way into an apocalypse because everyone keeps asking if all the frogs have boiled.

Enough.

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