House Passes Bill to Ban Gender Transition Treatments for Minors

What the bill would really do, he said, is ban “safe and effective medications for an entire group of people.”

Takano said that the bill would not make children safe and that it would “interfere with parental choice and open private medical data up to investigation. ”

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, speaking to reporters on the steps of the Capitol. “They are consumed with this and they are extreme on it. ”