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President Donald Trump just added banning life saving gender affirming transgender care to the Save Act, saying he will refuse to sign any legislation if the Senate doesn't acquiesce to his demand.
According to The 19th* the Save Act could keep over 70 million people, mainly women and trans people, from voting in the midterm elections.
Voting rights groups maintain the SAVE America Act would pose a barrier for millions of women and others who have changed their legal names. An estimated 69 million American women and 4 million men do not have a birth certificate that matches their current legal name.
With or without the SAVE America Act, trans Americans’ ability to vote has been jeopardized as more states restrict whether trans people can access accurate IDs and birth certificates, advocates say. In Kansas (and in Texas), trans residents’ licenses are being invalidated because of a new state law that requires gender markers to match a person’s sex at birth. Kansas requires a state ID to vote.
Why the push now to disenfranchise voters, and why did Trump add the anti-trans provisions?
Trump knows the Republicans are doomed in a fair midterm election and face a strong Democratic party that will likely take control of the House. The best chance the GOP has is to cheat by limiting who can vote. Both Speaker Johnson and Trump recently said they will be impeached for betraying the American people should the Republicans lose in the Midterms.
Trump is using transgender children as political pawns in a Hail Mary play, hoping to get the Save Act past the filibuster in the Senate. The Filibuster is just another word for the 60-vote threshold that bills normally must have to pass.
