Republicans are quietly pushing to defund transgender healthcare even for adults

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Republicans are quietly pushing to defund transgender healthcare even for adults

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republican-transgender-healthcare-tax-funding-b2582465.html

For a year and a half, GOP lawmakers have been stealthily adding amendements to government appropriations bills, which are key to funding major government departments, to ban any federal money being used for gender transition procedures. This will dramatically curtail trans people’s access to medical care — just like the Hyde Amendment restricted abortion access, write Io Dodds and Eric Garcia.

Republicans are quietly pushing to defund transgender healthcare even for adults