Thank you, Representative Dan Crenshaw
Congressman Dan Crenshaw’s website states that he serves Texas’s Second District. But, like any good Senator, he serves all Americans. He is putting science above ideology and calling for an end to taxpayer funded “gender affirming care” for ALL ages.
We live in a free society so adults are at liberty to alter their body as they wish, assuming they can find someone to do it. People can get plastic surgery, take body altering medications, or tattoo any body part they wish. But they cannot require the taxpayers to fund their non-medically necessary body alterations. Have at it but leave the rest of us alone. And “gender affirming care” is not only not medically necessary, it is harmful and regressive. No one is “born in the wrong body”. No one can change sex. Telling children and young adults otherwise has been the medical scandal our our lifetimes.
The Crenshaw Amendment would ban the use of Medicaid, CHIP, and Affordable Care Act funds for ALL so-called "gender-transition procedures." That includes puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible surgeries like double mastectomies and genital reconstruction.
The amendment has officially passed the House as part of the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.” There is a lot in this bill. It lives up to its name but this post concerns only one aspect - the end to taxpayer funded gender experiments.
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I don’t know if edits can be made to your article, but Dan Crenshaw is not a senator but a representative in the House. Regardless, he is speaking out and working to protect children and deserves this thanks.
I really hope that this passes that this will remove the incentive for medical interventions.