uspol
@Hyolobrika@berserker.town I think the main reason is that this will prevent a lot of unnecessary death. Getting gender affirming care prevents suicides and is generally beneficial to society. Personally I'm in the "healthcare should be free for everyone" camp (coming from Canada).
It's also not really "taxpayers" paying for it. Government spends money on random shit according to its whims anyway, sadly. More gets spent on mansions or tax cuts to corpos.
uspol
@Hyolobrika@berserker.town The other thing to note though is that there's literally hundreds of anti-trans bills popping up across the states and they're all different levels of awful. A lot of it isn't being reported on by lamestream media because it's either owned/lobbied by groups that want to keep this hush hush but also can't keep track of everything.
uspol
@Hyolobrika@berserker.town If you're curious here's a website tracking some of this stuff: https://translegislation.com/
Also important to remember that this is just a small prong of the beast. Trans people just happen to be an easy target, but eventually everyone that isn't particularly priviledged is gonna get shat on. This is also combined with the erosion of workers rights across the board for e.g.