HEALTHCARE/LGBTQ/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s tweets banning transgender Americans from serving in the armed forces not only sent shockwaves from the barracks to Capitol Hill, they also rocked the families of service members whose military health care coverage provides essential care for their transgender children.
‘I instantly started crying,’ Amanda Brewer told NBC Washington. Her son was reading her the tweets and asked, ‘What does that mean?’
‘We’re one tweet away from your sister not getting to see the doctor,’ Brewer told him.
Her 13-year-old daughter, Jenn, came out as transgender at age 11 but was at first denied coverage for her medical transition. In despair, she tried to kill herself…
That all changed shortly after June 2016, when the Pentagon lifted the ban on transgender troops serving openly. Now, Brewer, whose husband serves at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, said she’s worried that Tricare, the military’s health care system, will cut coverage of her daughter’s treatment because of Trump’s recent statements on Twitter.”
-Dawn Ennis, “Military Families With Transgender Kids Fear for Future,” NBC News, July 28, 2017 10:42am