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https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/house-spending-bill-now-bans-medicaid
>Late Wednesday night, as the House debated Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill—which will shape the federal government’s priorities for the coming year—Republican leaders made a last-minute concession to the party’s hard-right flank: expanding a provision banning Medicaid funds for transgender youth to now include all transgender people, regardless of age. The move marks a significant and unprecedented escalation—effectively the first major federal effort to restrict access to transition-related care for adults. It also confirms what many transgender advocates have long warned, and what some GOP operatives have candidly admitted: the endgame isn’t protecting children—it’s banning care for everyone.
>The manager’s amendment came late Wednesday night, and changed a previous ban on “gender transition procedures for minors.” Notably, gender transition procedures is defined to include hormone therapy, see the following provision from the bill:
>Late Wednesday night, as the House debated Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill—which will shape the federal government’s priorities for the coming year—Republican leaders made a last-minute concession to the party’s hard-right flank: expanding a provision banning Medicaid funds for transgender youth to now include all transgender people, regardless of age. The move marks a significant and unprecedented escalation—effectively the first major federal effort to restrict access to transition-related care for adults. It also confirms what many transgender advocates have long warned, and what some GOP operatives have candidly admitted: the endgame isn’t protecting children—it’s banning care for everyone.
>The manager’s amendment came late Wednesday night, and changed a previous ban on “gender transition procedures for minors.” Notably, gender transition procedures is defined to include hormone therapy, see the following provision from the bill:
