Slashing Programs That Help People with Disabilities Is a Nod to Eugenics

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By Megha Satyanarayana

When I was a teenager, I took the voice lessons of a musician who was blind. I went to his apartment to watch music, I worked for singing scales and doing voice exercises, and I wondered how he managed to go to the store, campus, or out. I was afraid to ask.

In a summer, I spent a lot of time with a medical genetics that worked in a clinic Which state did then call Mental health department and head delay. I learned about dozens of genetic diseases that left children with permanent intellectual disabilities. I learned History of institutionalization in our state. It wasn’t nice. No Statured. Once we talked about his caseboada, what caused diseases, and how he manage some medical medical needs. It was an eye opening, to say the least.

Then I worked with a child with development delays in motor skills in high school. We played the balls, games to help him move his body, because his parents could help him regulate it, helping him gain skill.

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My teenage brain began together, the way people who come out of the disability and the way we get out of mind. Special education in different schools, little extracurricular activity, complex and coordinated steps needed for the rest of everyday life. It has changed much since then; Children with disabilities go to major schools, there are other extracurricular transport options and we adapt our infrastructure and workplaces (if they don’t want it), unless successful, unless successful.

But now our president and his administration are facing people with disabilities Name of government efficiency. However, it is more than that. Through rhetoric Standardization of institutionalization again or by doing Social Security benefits Getting harder, this is nothing capable, Doctrine Eugenics working at the highest level of government, and life is much more difficult 70 million adults In our country with disabilities 7.5 million children those who receive support at the school, and Millions of topics people who care for them. Let us clear how this is; The Trump Administration is aimed at services and protections that cause almost 25% of the U.S. population, not the responsibility of the federal government to establish the care and account standards for these Americans, to ensure that they are equally treated.

If the endanger is privatizing more services, change responsibility for caring for people with private charges and donations Leave to decide status It is worth help and who is not, the message is crystal light: HavingGood genes“In the world of Trump, it is not white, as the administration tries to remove government diversity, and elsewhere with a mccarthyesque zeal, but also able organization and the mind of the mind. Everyone else can rot.

Trump and his administration should not be surprised by anyone. That is, the campaign for his first term of office, he imitated the movements of the A’s arm New York Times a different journalist. He said when he despised his disability. Recently, 10 days in his second term of office, within an antidiversity income, accused him of the middle-class air collision in Washington DC Air Traffic Controllers “Serious intellectual disabilities” and “psychiatric problems”, people with that work said “Genius naturally. “

On Social Security Administration Cuts, it helps 67 million people of all ages Disability insuranceTrump’s appointed department of veterans lasts and disassembles the Department of Education, both people with disabilities. It is also removing its justice department Orientation documents that help companies Better serving people with disabilities. One of the documents is to make new hotels with ADA. Another is communicating with customers or customers with disabilities. Republican Budget Plan at Congress Calls to make cuts on MedicaidIt offers health care to children and adults with disabilities.

Between the US 16 million veterans A third of a third disability benefits. Lot Search support with mental health Trauma, injury and much more, and are already working on the fall of VA changes. About 15 million people Use Medicaid disabilities.

Of course, all this will be played in court. And there is that the administration will not take all these steps, what they are doing so much Requires an act of Congress to make it legally. There are those who think it is okay to reduce the federal government and encourage decision-making states. But then what happens when the states decide to take care of people with disabilities?

Texas and 16 other states Recently 504. He questioned the constitutionalism of the section, Statute of antidiscrimination This is perhaps knowing the law that makes education for children with ADHD, autism and epilepsy. Not to mention children with mobility problems or diabetes. Why? These states added its protections by the Biden Administration “Gender Dysphoria”. The suit has been paused, but not retired, and some legal analyzes see this case as a preview of the effort to flip this Olmstead v. Lc, became discriminant to the supreme court Institutionalized people with disabilities when they can live in the community. Out of sight, in the head, soon could be on the table for some of our most vulnerable people.

Meanwhile, the Lehendakari can do what is made to universities, trying to renounce federal funds in terms of disability, as a note, many states who achieve the most funding for children with disabilities tend to vote for the Republican. And it is not trying to investigate the research administration of the race-based diversity pull the plug. Funding Social Security Disability research It was preserved last month. Institute of Educational Sciences, research weapons of the Department of Education studied, among others, special education, has been destroyed.

In 2020, A survey 51% of people with disabilities in the US stated that Trump voted. This President, his administration and his supporters have prolifitly serve people who do not have perfect physical and emotional copies of whiteness. And Last time our country went down from that pathThe results were the catastrophic of Americans and the world.

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