"Over the last 24 hours, the Trump administration has marshaled extraordinary federal power to restrict health care for transgender youth, a population that makes up well under 1 percent of Americans, while leaving untouched a looming crisis that threatens millions more: the scheduled January expiration of Affordable Care Act tax credits that keep health insurance affordable on the Obamacare exchanges. Late Wednesday, the House passed the most extreme anti-transgender health care bill ever to clear Congress, legislation sponsored by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia that would criminalize parents and doctors for providing best-practice medical care to transgender young people. Three Democrats joined nearly all Republicans in passing the bill."
"At an 11 a.m. press event filled with pseudoscience and misinformation at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a slate of proposed federal rules that would sharply limit access to gender-affirming care for minors nationwide. Onstage with Kennedy were the heads of HHS's major health agencies - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya,"
Federal and legislative actions targeted gender-affirming care for transgender minors while leaving Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits set to expire in January unaddressed. The House passed a bill that would criminalize parents and doctors for providing best-practice medical care to transgender young people, with three Democrats joining most Republicans. HHS announced proposed rules intended to sharply limit access to gender-affirming care for minors, presented alongside top agency leaders and an anti-trans activist. The measures focus on a population under 1 percent of Americans, while ACA subsidy expirations threaten millions' coverage and affordability.
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