The Republican-Controlled U.S. House of Representatives Passes Major Bill 216-211

“Does anyone believe that the Freedom Caucus and President Trump love America’s children more than their parents do?” said Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland.

California Democratic Rep. Mark Takano said the surgeries on minors that Greene described were extremely rare.

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.

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