In the face of ‘eradication’, one trans activist is preparing to fight – and she’s sick of silence and neglect from her supposed allies. Raquel Willis tells Io Dodds why Republican bathroom bans are everybody’s problem

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Just hours after Willis’s interview with The Independent, House and Senate negotiators revealed a bipartisan compromise spending bill that would ban military health insurance from covering transition care for children. On Wednesday, 50 House Democrats who previously denounced that provision voted in favor, and key Senate Democrats said they would reluctantly back it too.

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What did they get in return?

It’s politics, they got something, what was it?

It doesn’t say? Huh. I wonder why.

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They got to fund the military.

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then double fuck them, how about the military passes an audit before they get more tax money to hand over to billionaires.

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