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Greene and Vance’s Protect Children’s Innocence Act doesn’t just ban transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care, it also makes it more difficult for transgender adults to access such care by blocking Medicaid funds from being used to reimburse patients for gender-affirming care. The bill would also ban medical schools from teaching about gender-affirming care, stop health care plans under the Affordable Care Act from funding gender-affirming care, and ban anyone found to have performed gender-affirming care from immigrating to the U.S.

The bill is unlikely to pass the Democratic Senate and, if it ever did, would likely not be signed by President Joe Biden, who has said that he believes that medical decisions should be left to families and their doctors. The bill is more of an indication of what Republicans may try to do if they get control of the Senate and the White House in a coming election