STAT+: House set to vote on bills to ban gender-affirming care for young people
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Republicans in Congress are making a renewed push before the end of the year to pass major federal restrictions to gender-affirming care for trans minors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The House is set to consider two bills this week, before lawmakers depart for their holiday break. One, introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), aims to prohibit doctors from providing any gender-affirming care to minors by amending an existing statute on female genital mutilation. It refers to treatments like surgery and hormone therapy as \u201cgenital or bodily mutilation\u201d and \u201cchemical castration.\u201d The other, from Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), would ban Medicaid from funding that care for minors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been an all-hands-on-deck effort to restrict this access,\u201d said Lindsey Dawson, director of LGBTQ health policy at KFF. The bills would create \u201ca sweeping ban\u201d of gender-affirming care for young people, and constitute another \u201clayer of effort\u201d by the administration in pursuit of that outcome, she said.<\/p>\n
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