David Meade (R), speaker pro tempore of Kentucky’s House, said a ban was necessary in order to “ensure” that gender-affirming care “is not something we should be allowing until they are adults.” Contra Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she wanted to introduce legislation that would block federal funding for gender-affirming services because “the Republican Party has a duty” to “be the party that protects children.” Ivey said in a statement she supported a bill prohibiting gender-affirming care in Alabama because “if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl.” Reynolds supported a bill because “we need to just pause” to better understand how gender-affirming care affects children. Ron DeSantis (R) has referred to gender-affirming care as “an example of woke ideology infecting medical practice.” Rep. Chief CriticĮarlier this year, former President Donald Trump said he would assign federal agencies to “stop” healthcare providers from giving gender-affirming care-which he said was “child abuse” and “child sexual mutilation”-for minors if he was re-elected. That’s how many kids aged 13 to 17 identify as transgender, according to estimates from UCLA’s Williams Institute, of which nearly 27% are estimated to live in states that have banned gender-affirming care. ApArkansas became the first state to outlaw gender-affirming care for minors after the state legislature voted to override a veto by then Gov.
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