US EditionTrump agenda bill would block Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care
- On May 22, the U.S. House approved a budget reconciliation bill that prohibits the use of Medicaid funds to provide treatments related to gender transition for transgender individuals of all ages nationwide.
- Originally limiting the ban to minors, a late amendment by Texas Rep. Jodey Arrington removed the age restriction, extending coverage bans to adults as well.
- The bill includes bans on surgeries, puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and possibly hormone-level bloodwork, passing narrowly 215-214 with nearly all Republicans in favor and all Democrats opposed.
- The legislation would strip Medicaid coverage for 152,000 transgender Americans, provoke clinic policy changes like Pittsburgh’s Central Outreach halting care for patients under 19, and fuels ongoing political and community resistance.
- This bill’s passage signals a national effort to limit transgender healthcare, framed by supporters as protecting children and saving money, while opponents call it discriminatory and harmful to vulnerable Americans.
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Letter: Transgender soldiers, citizens are worthy | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Donald Trump recently took aim at transgender troops in a very personal way. Trump in a presidential action said that a man identifying as a woman was “not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”
The House Bill Won't Pay for Child Mutilations or Illegal Aliens
The House’s big, beautiful bill ends Medicaid payments for gender mutilations on minors and it takes illegal aliens off the rolls. However, the Senate plans to change it and then it has to go back to the House. So far Congress has enshrined nothing that DOGE and Trump have implemented and they are going to […] The post The House Bill Won’t Pay for Child Mutilations or Illegal Aliens appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.
'Deliberately damaging': Reed warns of difficult fight ahead against Trump bill
CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — As U.S. House Republicans celebrate a razor-thin victory for President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," Democratic Senator Jack Reed said the legislation could leave tens of thousands of Rhode Islanders without health care. "This is the most deliberately damaging bill to the economy and to our health care system that I've ever seen," he said in a news conference Friday in Cranston. The debt reconciliation bill that pa…
Why experts say Trump's budget bill strips health care from nearly all transgender people
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a sweeping Republican-led budget reconciliation package — dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill” by President Donald Trump and the bill’s proponents — that, if enacted, would decimate access to gender-affirming care for transgender people of all ages across the country.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.More than a tax bill, the legislation, passe…
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