"Republicans in the House of Representatives can't get much done - except when it comes to attacking the trans community. Then they can still manage to pull out all the stops. Just last week, Republicans, joined by a handful of Democrats, passed a bill to ban Medicaid from funding any gender-affirming care for minors. That was on top of another bill that they passed to criminalize gender-affirming care for trans youth."
"The odds for each bill in the Senate look pretty weak. But getting the measures passed into law is not really the point. The point is to gin up an electoral strategy to rescue the GOP from what's increasingly looking like humiliating mid-term elections. Past experience has shown this tactic to be, well, dumb. That doesn't lessen its cruelty, however."
"Previous elections are littered with examples of how anti-trans campaigning flopped with voters. Republicans only have to look to last month's returns to see just how badly anti-trans attacks fared. In the Virginia gubernatorial race, Republican nominee Winsome Earle-Sears blew through a ton of money on ads attacking Democrat Abigail Spanberger for her support of trans rights. Spanberger walloped Earle-Sears on election night."
House Republicans passed measures banning Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care for minors and criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans youth, with some Democratic support on one bill. Senate prospects for the measures appear weak, but the legislative push functions as an electoral tactic to revive GOP standing after poor midterm performance. Past elections show anti-trans attacks often fail with voters, as demonstrated in recent Virginia and New Jersey races where Democratic candidates prevailed despite heavy anti-trans advertising. Polling places trans issues low on voters' priority lists, roughly three percent in Virginia.
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