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So veterans can be refused care at the VA?
That will be an issue, if it ever happens.
A "rumor" confirmed by VA press secretary, Peter Kasperowicz.
Why do you feel that the paper is obligated to reconcile the self-contradictory statements of a political appointee?
That feels more like the job of the person who made the self-contradictory statements, imho.
This "leftist lunacy" HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY TRUMP'S POLITICAL APPOINTEE
The Trump appointee AND the Guardian are saying the same thing.
The Trump Admin agrees that the Guardian's interpretation is correct.
Your opinion seems to be an outlier.
The Department of Veteran Affairs on Monday harshly condemned what it called a false Guardian report that claimed recent updates in VA medical center bylaws could result in certain veterans being refused treatment.
The VA explained that the updates in medical center bylaws were to ensure compliance with White House executive orders, and "will have no impact whatsoever on who VA treats or who works at VA."
The VA stated that "the fact that The Guardian is trying to misrepresent these changes as anything more than a formality underscores its extreme liberal bias and steadfast commitment to spreading disinformation."
You’d support anything Trump does, even if he said all Democrats are on the terrorist watch list and are banned from traveling.
I hate to suggest this but it needs suggesting, the next Democratic President can reverse this and target Republicans.
If THAT happens we all know how LOUD the whining and moaning will be.
Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment.
Just as easily he didn’t do that, and The Guardian is misrepresenting the truth to support a narrative. Because when I read the original EO, what The Guardian is claiming doesn’t logically proceed from it: “Trump’s VA now says its doctors can refuse treatment to Democrats!”
Is it really too much too much to ask to read the actual regulations instead of having it regurgitated through the LGBTQI+ liberal media spin machine?
So it doesn't actually affect anybody...
So it doesn't actually affect anybody...
Off the top of your head, how are each of these things impacted by the EO?
(i) “The White House Toolkit on Transgender Equality”;
(ii) the Department of Education's guidance documents including:
(A) “2024 Title IX Regulations: Pointers for Implementation” (July 2024);(B) “U.S. Department of Education Toolkit: Creating Inclusive and Nondiscriminatory School Environments for LGBTQI+ Students”;(C) “U.S. Department of Education Supporting LGBTQI+ Youth and Families in School” (June 21, 2023);(D) “Departamento de Educación de EE.UU. Apoyar a los jóvenes y familias LGBTQI+ en la escuela” (June 21, 2023);(E) “Supporting Intersex Students: A Resource for Students, Families, and Educators” (October 2021);(F) “Supporting Transgender Youth in School” (June 2021);(G) “Letter to Educators on Title IX's 49th Anniversary” (June 23, 2021);(H) “Confronting Anti-LGBTQI+ Harassment in Schools: A Resource for Students and Families” (June 2021);(I) “Enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 With Respect to Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Light of Bostock v. Clayton County” (June 22, 2021);(J) “Education in a Pandemic: The Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 on America's Students” (June 9, 2021); and(K) “Back-to-School Message for Transgender Students from the U.S. Depts of Justice, Education, and HHS” (Aug. 17, 2021);(iii) the Attorney General's Memorandum of March 26, 2021 entitled “Application of Bostock v. Clayton County to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972”; and
(iv) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's “Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace” (April 29, 2024).
Do you wonder how that would work?
Or do you just naturally find government double-speak trustworthy
A Democratic president will never do that. That’s the difference.I hate to suggest this but it needs suggesting, the next Democratic President can reverse this and target Republicans.
If THAT happens we all know how LOUD the whining and moaning will be.
At the rate they're going, they're won't ever be a Democratic President ever again.
That party is a mess.
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital statuswww.theguardian.com
Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law.
Language requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated.
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The bottom line is that Trump and his supporters do not view their political opponents as equal citizens. They view them as enemies
When we start to peel back the layers of the onion we can see that this is not so much about denying care to Democrats but getting the government out the business of affirming transgender “rights.” For example, if a biological male vet concludes he was really born a woman he shouldn’t expect taxpayers to pay for his gender dysphoria counseling and his new set of D-cup knockers. Is that about the, um, size of it?
No, but when you said the Trump Administration agreed with The Guardian my Bullshit Alarm was screaming.
So the right hate the troops. I remember when the right whined about how the left spit on troops.
Guess thats gone now
Trumpetistas can always go to their local Faith Healer.I hate to suggest this but it needs suggesting, the next Democratic President can reverse this and target Republicans.
If THAT happens we all know how LOUD the whining and moaning will be.
Only two days ago the Left made it a point to hate the Army. They celebrated people waving Mexican flags over a parade celebrating the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday. They wanted it to fail. Still, it was a great show, even if some ill-disciplined soldiers, probably Democrats, couldn’t or wouldn’t hold a cadence:
The WWII re-enactors did a better job:
And I would certainly hope that the relevant medical society would take action against any doc taking advantage of this policy to discriminate in the treatment of soldiers or veterans. If the docs have reasonable medical ethics, these new rules will be meaningless, other than to show just how Wacko T. Rump has become.Then the Dr would treat them and refer them for a psych consult. The providers of the VA or otherwise don't get to deny medical care because of a political/social stance. There are medical ethics that apply.
The VA response posted to X:
This story is disinformation. All eligible Veterans will always be welcome at VA and will always receive the benefits and services they’ve earned under the law.
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