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Senate Health Repeal; Now Even Worse for Transgender People and Their Families

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Ash Orr (they/he)

Washington, DC—Moments ago, Senate Republicans reintroduced a revised version of their health care plan. NCTE Executive Director Mara Keisling offers the following statement:  

“Transgender Americans just beat back an attempt to take away health care from service members and their families—but Senate Republicans are still trying to take away health care for millions more Americans. Make no mistake, this latest bill is even meaner than the last one they tried.

The bill still ends Medicaid as we know it, still causes millions to lose coverage, still forces people to pay more for less and still blocks access to Planned Parenthood—one of the nation’s largest care providers for transgender people.

Now, on top of that, it allows guts even more consumer protections and punishes those with pre-existing conditions, which can include just being transgender.”

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