House passes bill criminalizing transgender treatment for minors

Greater than 200 Home Democrats voted Wednesday night towards a invoice that may criminalize transgender medical therapy for minors.

The invoice handed by a vote of 216 to 211, with bipartisan crossover.

Three Democrats, Reps. Vicente Gonzales, D-Texas, Don Davis, D-C., and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, voted with Republicans in favor of the invoice.

4 Republicans, Reps. Mike Kennedy, R-Utah, Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Gabe Evans, R-Colo., and Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., voted no.

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Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries holds a press convention on the fourteenth day of the U.S. authorities shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 14, 2025. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)

Nonetheless, it was extensively opposed by most Democrats. Forty-five Republicans within the Home of Representatives formally signed on to the laws earlier than the vote.

And whereas the vast majority of Republicans supported it within the Home of Representatives, it’s unclear at the moment whether or not will probably be taken up within the Republican Get together-led Senate.

Transgender points, particularly involving minors, are among the many points driving a wedge between reasonable and progressive Democrats. However the severity of the language within the invoice seems to have deterred a big variety of Democrats within the Home of Representatives.

The invoice creates new federal crimes that might carry as much as 10 years in jail for docs who carry out transgender-affirming surgical procedures on minors, whereas additionally making it against the law to prescribe puberty blockers.

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Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, is seen on the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photographs)

Dad and mom or guardians of kids below the age of 18 can also be held criminally liable in the event that they consent to or in any other case facilitate transgender therapy for them.

“This excessive invoice locations the specter of prosecution between tons of of hundreds of households and their docs and would put docs behind bars for exercising their greatest medical judgment,” mentioned Mike Zamore, nationwide director of coverage and authorities affairs on the American Civil Liberties Union..

“Passing this invoice could be a critical escalation of an already heavy effort not solely to push transgender folks out of public life, but in addition to offer the state extra management over our our bodies and our lives.”

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., leaves the U.S. Capitol after the Home reauthorized Part 702 of the International Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Friday, April 12, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photographs)

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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who argued in favor of the invoice within the Home of Representatives, mentioned Wednesday: “It is obscene. It is disgusting. You are seeing in actual time Democrats wanting and defending the care of kids. And it is disgusting.”

“There’s a lie on the coronary heart of the controversy we’re having at this time that I have to appropriate: no little one is born within the fallacious physique. There are solely two genders, female and male. There are not any others,” Mace mentioned.