The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would prevent Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for transgender youth, according to a report in The Advocate.
The passage of the Medicaid bill came on the heels of a bill that would criminalize doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors, which was introduced by Georgia’s own Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The bill, introduced by Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas, passed 215 to 201 Thursday with four Democrats voting in favor: Texas Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, North Carolina Rep. Don Davis, and Washington Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
Both bills now head to the Senate, where they are likely to fail.
Also on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a broad set of proposed regulatory actions that would sharply restrict, and in effect ban, gender-affirming care for minors, marking the Trump administration’s most aggressive federal move yet targeting transgender health care.