Sarah McBride knew some Democrats would betray trans people, so she lobbied Republicans
Sarah McBride successfully lobbied a handful of Republicans to vote against a ban on gender-affirming care for youth.
December 19, 2025
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Sarah McBride successfully lobbied a handful of Republicans to vote against a ban on gender-affirming care for youth.
A bill banning Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for youth has passed the U.S. House with the help of four Democrats.
“They are trying to do something that CMS simply isn’t empowered to do,” a former senior Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official from the Biden administration told The Advocate.
The outgoing Georgia congresswoman was able to successfully make transgender young people a target as one of her last acts in Congress.
“They are obsessed with trans people,” the first out transgender member of Congress said. “I actually think they think more about trans people than trans people think about trans people.”
Here are Jasmine Crockett's and James Talarico's track records on LGBTQ+ issues.
In a Washington holiday tableau where politics blurred seamlessly into spectacle, the former congressman once again proved he understands the value of infamy.
The anti-LGBTQ+ congresswoman's measure is set for a vote in Congress.
Greene claimed the president told her "people will get hurt" if she went through with her vote to release the Epstein files.
Anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has a remarkable record of crazed rhetoric, from space lasers to pedophilia to gazpacho police. And the fact that she's turned against Trump doesn't change that.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is known for embracing conspiracy theories and her virulently anti-LGBTQ+ and especially anti-transgender views.
He's echoed Trump and Vance's lies about Haitian immigrants eating pets, among other things.
Mark Epstein wanted to ensure that “speculation does not unfairly implicate people who are not actually being referenced in those communications,” he said in a statement to The Advocate.
"I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia,” Donald Trump announced.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims MTG is on a "revenge tour."
Trump has commuted George Santos' sentence, saving the disgraced gay Republican from more than seven years in prison.
The bipartisan movement against female genital mutilation and cutting is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed.
Opinion: He's hosting the Kennedy Center Honors in December and a UFC fight on the White House lawn next summer, so why not a late-night show? writes John Casey.
The president was responding to a question by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, Brian Glenn, who said many people were “threatened” by the inclusive banner.
"What is Donald Trump hiding?" the gay California Democrat said.
Opinion: The statewide races in South Carolina are about who is the biggest liar, Trump derriere smoocher, racist, and bigot, writes John Casey.