Lawmakers circle parents’ rights in gender-affirming care hearing
Republicans on Thursday sought to turn around transgender advocates’ arguments that gender-affirming care is a personal health care decision.
WASHINGTON — Republicans on Thursday sought to turn around transgender advocates’ arguments that gender-affirming care is a personal health care decision.
The LGBTQ+ community has long pressed Democrats to frame their defense of transgender rights, and particularly gender-affirming care for minors, as a basic right for a person to pursue with their medical providers — and that conservative bans on access represent hypocrisy from traditionally small-government Republicans.
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