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Cruelty Masquerading As Policy: Trump’s Assault On Gender-Affirming Care For Minors
There are bad ideas in politics, and then there are ideas so drenched in cruelty that they defy even the most cynical explanations. Donald Trump’s latest proposal to strip Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for minors is a calculated act of political theater that weaponizes children’s health for ideological gain. Continue reading
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Transgender Suicide: There Are Not Two Sides To Every Issue, That Is A Conservative Ploy
The news this week of the suicide of 21-year-old Lia Smith, a transgender Middlebury College student, was perhaps the saddest story that did not come from Washington, D.C. She soon was to graduate and was known to be intelligent and proved herself to be a former student-athlete. My husband, James, was a graduate of Middlebury, Continue reading
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Bill Berrien Wins Hypocrisy Award Of The Week
One of the first problems many of the current crop of candidates running for their party’s nomination for Wisconsin governor needs to deal with is acquiring name recognition. A county executive or state representative may be well-known in local areas of the state, but when facing a statewide contest needs to be known by voters Continue reading
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