Post by @jik@federate.social

2026-09-09 15:16 UTC

When I was doing my "media tour" after DOGE fired me in February 2025, the people interviewing me would always ask what I was worried about DOGE doing with all the data they were gaining access to at federal agencies. I repeatedly warned that fascism requires enemies to survive, and trans people are one of the enemies for Trump Fascism™, so it's inevitable that the data would eventually be used to go after trans people. And here we are. #politics #USPol #TransRights https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2026/09/pentagon-searching-medical-records-to-identify-transgender-troops/

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@jik@federate.social 2026-09-09 15:20

P.S. This will not stop at the Pentagon searching the medical records of people in the military. Medicare and Medicaid have medical records on individuals. The VA has medical records on individual veterans. The State Department has records of gender marker changes on passports. The forms for various federal programs ask people their gender. Also state programs; cooperative states will hand over data willingly, and uncooperative states can be strong-armed. #politics #USPol #TransRights

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@d_a_n_a@mstdn.social 2026-09-09 18:18

@jik@federate.social It's not just in the military. I recently had Medicare deny screening mammogram coverage due to "inconsistent gender" markers in Medicare vs social security records. Never happened before; I suspect DOGE. So yeah, they're coming after us, and they're sifting through the data to do it. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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@alpacamale@social.cologne 2026-09-09 20:05

@jik@federate.social Enemies and a constant state of crisis. And if there's no crisis to justify their ever-increasing reach for more power over people's lives, fascism will manufacture one. The Trump regime has done nothing but manufacturing crises since it has been established.

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@huntingdon@mstdn.social 2026-09-09 20:29

@jik@federate.social Raises the obvious question: what else is Whiskey Pete looking for when he tells his personnel people to comb records looking for transgender service members?

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