House Passes Bill to Ban Gender Transition Treatments for Minors

A second anti-trans bill, also supported by Greene, that would prohibit Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care for trans youth is scheduled to be voted on by the House later this week.

The first openly transgender lawmaker to serve in Congress, Rep

Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware, claimed before Wednesday’s vote that Republicans were “obsessed” with transgender people and were concentrating on a “misunderstood and vulnerable 1 percent of the population” rather than taking any action to safeguard Americans’ health care.

“They think more about trans people than trans people think about trans people,” McBride said,