The Army will take your bad knees, your weed conviction, and your 42-year-old spine – but not your trans identity. Meanwhile, Tennessee is building a public database of trans patients’ medical records and calling it “transparency.” Two stories this week about who gets to exist in public and who gets erased from it.
Hegseth Kicked Out the Queers to Replace Them With Potheads and Old Dudes
The Army raised its maximum enlistment age to 42 and dropped the Pentagon-level waiver for marijuana convictions. The recruiting pipeline is so broken they’ll take anyone – except the 15,000 trans troops Pete Hegseth already fired. Replacing that expertise will take 20 years and cost $18 billion.
Tennessee’s “Transparency” Bill Is a Trans Registry With Extra Steps
HB 754 requires doctors to hand over trans patients’ prescription dates, dosages, counties, and full psychiatric histories to the state – which then publishes it all online in downloadable format. The bill doesn’t need names when it has everything else. Doctors who refuse face license suspension.
The full investigation lives at rachelandthecity.com. Start with the suspects, or dig into the GriftMatrix.
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