A few days later In the struggle for Trump’s “Big and Beautiful Act,” the House of Representatives passed the reconciliation bill in the death of the night. On Wednesday, the Congress Republican revised this bill to prohibit the use of Medicaid, which potentially cast out medical access from millions of transgender Americans.
The previous version of this law targeted Medicaid for gender management for minors. Republican in midnight time maneuver I removed the word “minor”. In this clause, it prohibits the use of Medicaid’s funds for the “gender transition procedure” for adults as well as children.
law Define extensively “Sexual deformation procedures”, from surgery to hormonal therapy. To pass through the Senate, you only need to have a lot of simple.
Transgender Health Care Experts said that if this clause develops, it can already create a rational environment for the treatment of transgender. They rely on Medicaid Reduction of $ 700 billion In the health program of the GOP bill.
Aspen Ruhlin, a community administrator of MABEL WADSWORTH Center in the main banger, said, “Trans people are likely to be low in income and then be qualified.“ This will have a fatal impact on people because it will lose insurance benefits for normal and necessary health care. ”
“At first, the report is not good.”
“We always start as a minor in a state that fought to prohibit gender retention treatment, and then the Trojan horses say that they prohibit insurance applications to gender reports or generally prohibit access to sex and reports.”
According to the 2022 report of the Williams Institute of the UCLA Law School, 276,000 transgender adults Registered in Medicaid in the United States. Even without a new bill, it is very difficult to approach gender care care. According to the Williams Institute report, 38,000 transgender adults Along with Medicaid, it lives in a state that explicitly refuses to access gender care nursing. 74,000 transgender Medicaid beneficiaries live in the Lord without explicitly protecting the scope of insurance coverage.
Dr. Lakshmi Sundaresan, a doctor of home medical medicine, said that it provides gender management services but not surgery. “We are often fighting for this uphill.”
Sundaresan has cut the basic services that GOP lawmakers can generally grant the overwhelming majority of Americans. Tax reduction on rich people.
“The influence of large -scale cuts will lose insurance benefits, so the layman will feel the public.”
Ruhlin said it is exactly unclear how the bill applies in other states with main or similar laws. 2023, State council Mainecare, the state Medicaid program, passed the method of dealing with gender care nursing as needed. Ruhlin said Maine would still be able to provide gender care nursing by using the main Medicaid dollar. It also means that this provision will be subject to litigation.
In the case of Ruhlin, the damage caused by this type of restriction is deeper than the financial burden on access to gender repayment treatment. It is also about the message it sends.
“Even trans people who do not have the same demands or goals for gender access will still be negative because they are a social impact that strengthens trans a phobia in our society,” he said.
