The city says the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would require it to discriminate against trans vets to receive funding. The VA says that’s “false.”

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is pulling out of a federal program meant to help veterans transition out of homelessness, alleging the Trump administration would have required New York City to discriminate against transgender vets seeking shelter to receive the funding.

But federal officials are denying that claim, and say the city walked away from the program after the veterans agency notified the Mamdani administration the city would receive less money than it had in the past

  • GardenGeek@europe.pub
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    3 days ago

    Sound like weaponized culture wars by the GOP.

    If NYC wouldn’t have dropped out the left (which was largely responsible for Madani’s election) would be in an uproar right now because NYC is joining the GOP in discriminating against trans people.

    Once again, the Republicans have managed to maneuver the progressives into a lose-lose situation that they can then exploit to the fullest through their media (this is explicitly not referring to the source here, but I think you know what I mean).