Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/14277007

DeepL:

„Äußerst beunruhigend und unethisch“: Neue Vorschriften erlauben es Ärzten der Veteranenbehörde, Demokraten und unverheiratete Veteranen die Behandlung zu verweigern.

Das Ministerium für Veteranenangelegenheiten erklärt, die Änderungen seien eine Reaktion auf eine Verordnung von Trump zum „Schutz von Frauen“.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    261·
    1 day ago

    wtf is the problem with unmarried veterans? this country redefines dumb every day

    • Pyr@lemmy.ca
      4·
      8 hours ago

      It’s not unmarried specifically, just marital status.

      Probably a way from Republicans to allow them to not treat gay Vets if they aren’t married to their partner or something.

      • thanks AV@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Come on. Marital status? This is an attack on queer vets bar none. They just gave them blanket permission to deny someone based on “whether they have a wife or not,” which is complete nonsense.

        It’s clearly just easier to do this and allow the VA to deny benefits to anyone and everyone who isnt straight than to outright say “you can deny care to gay and trans vets” and maybe miss out on harming lesbian vets by accident.

        Marital status covers any non-traditional relationship, and allows complete discretion to the fascist who controls your health to determine whether you meet the standards. Horrific. I’m glad you pointed it out.

        Edit: and shame on me for not reading the article first

        In making the changes, VA officials cite the president’s 30 January executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”. The primary purpose of the executive order was to strip most government protections from transgender people. The VA has since ceased providing most gender-affirming care and forbidden a long list of words, including “gender affirming” and “transgender”, from clinical settings.

        So yeah, explicitly to harm queer vets almost exclusively

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      161·
      1 day ago

      My now wife and I lived together for 10 years before we got married. A lot of pearl clutchers had a problem with that. I am guessing that is what they are referring to. Not single people, but unmarried cohabitants.

    • Stern@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 day ago

      I interpret it not as married or unmarried, but the gender they’re married to, though maybe that wouldn’t stand in court due to roundabout discrimination, I dunno.